No Bargain Houses

for Samoa’s PS

RESIDENTS of Islands Terrii tories outside of Westerr Samoa, who sighed with enw over November PIM photographs a houses built there for publii servants, can relax. They cost little over the amount we said the; cost. Just a trifle.

Mr. R. F. Rankin of Apia, whi supplied the photographs and th story writes that he got into a “bi of hot water from local MLA’s over the matter, and goes on: “I could not ascertain for sun what the houses cost and, as th figure given to me was only ap proximate, I stated that they wen built for a ‘reported cost of £3,00C When the story was published, th ‘reported’ was left out. This mad me look somewhat of a liar, a apparently the final cost was ii the vicinity of £5,000.”

We would remind residents n P-NG and elsewhere (where som public servants are still living ii tarred paper and grass establish ments), that £5.000 Samoa is equs to approximately £6,250 Australia!