Sydney, Hub City Of The South Pacific, Continues To |

SYDNEY, HUB CITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CONTINUES TO GROW, AS THIS NEW AERIAL PICTURE OF THE DOWN-TOWN SECTION SHOWS. CURVE OF THE NEW HOTEL WENTWORTH, .

CENTRE FOREGROUND, COMPARES WITH THE CIRCULAR I AUSTRALIA SQUARE BUILDING RISING IN THE BACKGROUND.

It Will Be Sydney S Tallest.

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The placid atmosphere of a Sunday morning stroll along Apia's famous main street.

Friendly Samoa

11/HAT are the people like who " live in Western Samoa, the mly fully independent Polynesian lation? A recently issued book et produced by the Western Samoan Government sums them jp this way: “The Samoan is the purest surviving Polynesian type.

He is conservative and unspoiled.

In character the Samoan is a person with a reputation of being upright and dignified, is friendly

Photographs: Bruce Moss, Tele-Photos, Ronald Rose.

to visitors but expects his cus toms to be respected. The majority of Samoans can be seenr living their lives in their tra ditional native fashion almost en tirely unaffected by contact withr another civilisation.” There is some publicist’s licence in thatt passage, but very little. Nobody* who goes to Samoa can fail toe enjoy this small emerging Pacific nation and its people. Thee Samoans have not been overawedt by modern civilisation—they\ have merely adapted it to thein needs. Their politics are unique..

Samoans are home among thein fales, and big white churches;; and even those astonishing, < ricketty over-the-water latrines..

West Samoa is now beginning toe encourage visitors, as the article; opposite tells. But the Samoans < don’t want visitors in such num bers that they will put heavy \ pressures on the Samoan way ofl life. So in fact their new drive; for tourists is something of an i experiment, and nobody will 1 watch its development more than i the friendly Samoans themselves. .

Mrs. Ana Kelemete, of Apia, is a partner in a firm of Samoan public accountants..