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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1955Vol. XXV, No. 7

Samoan Woman's High

p. 91 · Read in the full issue

Record of Service

IMRS. Arieta Mulitauaopele, of LtJL Lauli’i, American Samoa, entered active politics in 1954 ind competed successfully for a seat n the House of Representatives.

Vhen the Legislature meets in January, Mrs. M. will be the only roman in the house.

She has been a nurse for 10 years nd holds a position of authority at

the hospital on the island of Tutuila. Her husband (a high Talking Chief) is Chief-of-Police on the island, and the couple have two daughters and a son. The latter was born a little over a week after Mrs. M. won her first political venture.

II Mr. G. K. Roth, Secretary for Fijian Affairs, and Mrs. Roth re cently returned to the Colony from leave.

1i Miss Regina Saunders, who was born in Suva, has completed the degree of Bachelor of Home Science at Otago University and also won the Archerfield Prize. Miss Saunders is the daughter of Mrs. Dorothy Saunders, formerly of Suva, and niece of Mrs. Blanche Watson, daughters of the late Samuel Moody Browne, and Mrs. C. A. Browne, of Suva Point.