and Goings
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W. Samoan Comings and Goings
r:E High Commissioner of Western Samoa, Mr. G. R.
Powles, left Apia for New Zea land on December 9 for discussions with the new Minister of Island Territories in the recently elected New Zealand Labour Government.
The Secretary to the Government, Mr. T. R. Smith, who has been appointed Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission left Samoa on December 29 for Noumea.
Mr. J. R. Martin, of the New Zea
land Island Territories Dept, has been temporarily transferred to the Samoan Government Service and has been appointed Secretary of Economic Development to assist the new Minister of Economic Develop ment, the Hon. E. F. Paul.