Shades of RLS—

and Lamps, too

Someone in Western Samoa— we’re not sure who—has been instrumental in purchasing 70 old street lamps and 20 lamp i standards from the city of Edinburgh which was about to scrap them.

According to the cabled re port from Scotland, the Apia sponsors have purchased the lamps for use in Apia because of the sentimental association of the two places through the writer and poet Robert Louis' Stevenson.

Two of the old lamps, which have been in use for 50 years,} will also go to New Zealand.