Pacific People

in Pictures

[?]isiting Apia recently were Australian businessmen [?]ever Kyle and Douglas Stewart. Mr. Stewart was vestigating a proposal that Travelodge Australia [?]d. develop, with the Samoan Government, a big [?]otel on the site of the old Casino. No decision has yet been made.—Photo: Andy Forsgren.

[?]r. John Ayers, 39, of Victoria, who has ken up his new post as Secretary of [?]ealth and Education in the Republic of [?]auru. He is married, with five young [?]ildren, ail of whom have accompanied him to Nauru.

ABOVE, Radio Fiji's roving reporter Mr. Devakar Prasad in March began a month's tour of the United States as a guest of the US Government. He is one of 21 journalists from Asia and the Pacific who are making the tour. BELOW, photo graphed in Sydney are West Samoans Hana Talimaio, Watson Afa'ese, Sister Vaoese Potoi and Ualesi lerome. Sister Potoi recently graduated from the Sydney Sanitarium and is now training for her obstetrics certificate at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Launceston. The others are alt pursuing various studies in Australia.

• Miss Fay Sapsford has come a long way from Vaimoso, near Apia, Western Samoa, where as [?] 12-year-old she so impressed Father Aston of the Anglican Church School at Mato'otua that h[?] arranged for her to attend Dannervike High School at Hawkes Bay, NZ. She then took an office job in Dunedin, earning enough to pay for a night technical course on bookkeeping machines and business management. Able to choose positions to suit herself, she came to Sydney last October and is now ready to move on. Her ambition is to work her way "right through and round Australia. Telephotos took the picture in Sydney.