Attorney-General at Pago Pago

Pago Pago

t Professor Pierre Metais, of Bordeaux University, an authority on ethnology, is to visit New Caledonia to study the indigenous people. One of his objectives is to try to establish why the eastern coast of the island was more favoured for settlement than the west.

HMr. and Mrs. Oscar Newman the New Hebrides have sold t) Tisman Plantation to Compt Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides have purchased a home at Mii Cove, Sydney. However, Mr. N man will continue to manage plantation for a further two ye on behalf of the purchasers.

Mr. Peter Tali Coleman, aged 36, was appointed Attorney-General of Eastern (Ameri can) Samoa by Governor R. B. Lowe on May 5.

Mr. Coleman, son of a chief petty-officer in the US Navy and his Samoan wife, was born at Pago Pago. He was educated in Samoa and Hawaii, and joined the US army shortly before America entered World War II. He served in the Solomons and ended the war as a captain.

After securing a degree in economics at Georgetown University, US, Mr. Coleman was awarded a scholarship by the Whitney Hay Foundation. He completed his law training and was admitted to the Bar, in Washington, DC.

In 1952, he was appointed Public Defender in Eastern Samoa, and his appointment as Attorney-General has been popular. —Photo by Pan American Prints.