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

Happy Christmas in Apia

p. 123 · Read in the full issue

Mr. Samuel John Campbell, of ocklea, Queensland, left Brisbane a January 25 to become headmaster I Tonga’s recently established High chool. Mr. Campbell will have a ;aff of three New Zealand teachers nd two Tongan teachers. There

are 120 pupils attending the schoal —half of them Europeans and half specially selected Tongans.

If A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest Serafini at Lae General Hospital on January 20.

fl Mr. John Cowles, who celebrated his 21st birthday in New Guinea on January 25, was toasted in his absence at a party in Sydney.

Guests at the celebration included his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Cowles, and Mr. and Mrs. Colin Sefton, of Koitaki, Papua, who were holidaying in Sydney.

A group of Apia families who enjoyed a Christmas party at the home of Mr. [?]larrie Peagram, Union Steamship Company manager for Western Samoa.

Photo by R. F. Rankin.