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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 2

[?]ia and NZ Bound from Samoa . . .

p. 159 · Read in the full issue

k Island had an unusual when the Registrar (Mr.

Findlay), from his bedside tal, performed the ceremony Johnny Belan, of New USA, and Miss Lavinia raid, NI schoolteacher. y thrombosis took the

Registrar to hospital but he was expected to make a good recovery. t Two more shark fatalities occurred recently off the Guadalcanal coast, when a young child and an adult native were taken close to the shore.

1i Miss Maadi Gobrait, who served as a nurse during World War II and has recently returned to Papeete as one of a French Ocean! 1 delegation sent to France for the July 14 celebrations, has received word that she has been awarded the honour of Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Affectionate goodbyes mark these departures from Apia in the "Tofua". TOP: Mrs.

Tina McRory (left) off to visit friends in Cali fornia. Mrs. J. Suhren and Mrs. J. Churchward farewell her. LOWER; Mr. Alec MacDonald, Apia businessman and sportsman, leaves for an indefinite stay in Auckland. Left to right; Mr. MacDonald, Mr. W.

Kerrigan (brother - in law), Norman, Ronald and Mrs. MacDonald, and daughter, Mrs.

Walker.

Photo: R. F. Rankin.