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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1955Vol. XXVI, No.2

To Answer Suit

p. 149 · Read in the full issue

Governor R. B. Lowe To Answer Suit

SDERAL Judge Jon Wiig ruled at Honolulu on August 15 that Governor Richard Barrett Lowe, eastern (American) Samoa must wer to the 100,000 dollars’ lages suit brought against him Robert L. Ketner, reports PlM’s o Pago correspondent, etner has claimed that he was awfully deported from Pago o in 1954. (May PIM, page 21). b the Honolulu Federal Court, >rney O. P. Soares, representing ner and Mrs. Ketner, claimed : the Governor had violated the i)le’s constitutional rights, btorney L. D. Blissard, for the mce, argued that Governor e, as an executive officer of the ernment, was immune from the

Judge Wng’s ruling gave Gov ernor Lowe until September 15 to answer the suit.

Prefab. House

in W. Samoa

This British-made pre fabricated house, built at Faleolo Airport by Mr. 8. W. Kirkwood, TEAL representative, is the first of its kind in Western Samoa. Of aluminium, the house is insulated with glass wool lined with hard board.Photo by Jack Thornton.