Well-Known Samoa[?]
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Well-Known Samoa[?] Before Court
TWO Court cases heard ree in Apia High Court before i Judge C. C. Marsack I created much local comment. , In the first case, the Chaij of the Fono of Faipule (The Sas District Parliament), FaaH Galu, who has been trading fo Apia firm of I. H. Carruthers 1 at the village of Falelatai,,. charged with failure to accouu goods valued at £431.
Allegedly, the proceeds from missing goods had been us© accused to build a new house, tl he claimed that they consist! uncollected trade debts.
Faalavaau, a prominent SaE political leader, was convicted sentenced to six months’ impu ment. But, during the afternoc the trial, full restitution of. amount owing, was made on fc' of the accused before the Coun risen. The Chief Judge thei mitted the prison sentence and posed a fine of only £l5 as peK The second case to cause a s tion in Apia, was a charge ag a well-known Samoan Calf priest, Father Felise, of ApL having forged marriage pap© the name of a Samoan, Alaiso} Pago Pago, and a Samoan wo of Apia, Maletina Pule.
The accused was sentence) eight months’ imprisonment. other Samoan priest, Father La; and the woman concerned, fined £5 each as being accessco If Mr. Fred Archer, owner of .
Plantation, Buka Passage, Guinea, has been in Brisbane another strenuous session witl medical profession. He has happily through a surgical patch up; and plans to return to < Guinea in December after a in Tasmania.