Apia's Beach Won't Be

A Beach Much Longer

Apia's picturesque waterfront, known as “The Beach", will soon be only a memory. At the end of May, the harbour project dredge began filling in the 28-acre area in front of Beach Road and extending out beyond the wreck of the “Adler" to the reef.

Reclamation will extend along the whole of the area shown in the photograph and is expected to be complete by the end of October.

The buildings shown are (from left) E. and R. Fabricius (behind the palm trees), S. V. McKenzie and Co., Wesley Bookshop, Methodist Church, Bank of Western Samoa, Post Office, Burns Philp, and, at extreme right, the Clock Tower.

There are still no definite plans for the use of the re claimed land. But there seems to be growing support for build ing a new administrative centre housing most Government depart ments on the seaward side of the area. The rest would be used as a park and general recreation area with playing fields, tennis courts and a tropical garden.

Photo: “Samoana".