Pacific

Islands Monthly

December, 1961

Vol. Xxxii. No. 5.

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red at G.P.0., Sydney, for ission by post as a newspaper

If Samoa Attains Nationhoc FOR WHAT INDEPENDENCE WILL MEAN, SEE INSI

THE COVER: The pattern of a new Samoa can be seen in some of the new set of 10 stamps to be issued by Western Samoa in January to mark her independence. Philatelists will certainly want them. The full set portrays the airport, a map of the Samoan islands, the new flag, R. L. Stevenson's old home of Vailima, a fine mat, an orator, the Nelson Memorial Library, the Fono House at Mulinuu, the coat-of-arms, and the Samoa college.