One to be Proud Of!

t An old Chinaman, Li Quoi, aged 88. employed as a cook on the cocoa plantation of Mr. Alec Macdonald at Tanumapua, Western Samoa, was found near the plantation on December 1 seriously injured and battered. His assailant had taken away his trousers containing £4O in cash. While the victim of the brutal assault was taken to Apia Hospital, the police started an energetic investigation and later arrested a suspect, a Samoan, Nifo Va’a, aged 25, who had been employed on the same

plantation as Li Quoi as a labo but had been dismissed. Li ( up until December 21, was stil a serious condition. t Two calls for help were answ by P-NG aircraft in mid-Decen A Qantas plane carrying sc children to Samarai was dive to Woodlark Island to pick v native woman, and APC’s s Beaver went off to a drill sit pick up an employee of the ( pany and bring him back Moresby for treatment.

Landed at Moorea by the spear-fisherman on the right, this giant Hapuu or Groper, -weighed approximately 186 kilos —410 lbs— and like all big fish, is claimed to be a world's record. But at least as far as the records show, it was a record for Moorea, where the largest previously caught weighed 172 kilos —379 lbs. The name of the fisher man was not supplied by our correspondent.