Tribute to Islands churches
pp. 97-100 · Read in the full issue
Islands churches
Each year since Western Samoa's independence a set of commemorative stamps has been issued. This January a series of four, shows early missionaries and their churches.
The right hand stamp depicts the Seventh-day Adventists Sanatorium in Apia. On May 1, 1895, the mission ship "Pitcairn" left San Francisco with Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Braught on beard. They landed on Samoa six months later and opened a doctor's office and treatment room in an old three story home . . . that was the beginning.
Below, the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Apia with Father Louis Vioiette, one of the first Catholic missionaries to come to Samoa. He set out from Uvea in the Wallis group with a group led by Father Gilbert Roudaire. They arrived on Savaii island on September 15, 1845, and by the time of Father Violette's death in 1887, the walls of the cathedral were being constructed.
Below left depicts the London Missionary Society Church at Sapapali'i and the Rev. John Williams.
The 140th anniversary of the LMS church will be celebrated this year as the first missionaries arrived in Samoa in 1830. Directly below is the Church of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons) at Tuasivi, Savaii. The Mormons arrived in the Samoan Islands in 1889 and the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints in Western Samoa began with the trip made to Upolu on March 13, 1889.
Two recent appointments to the Cook Islands are Mr. H.
B. Goodman, left, who be comes Director of Works and, right, Mr. R. H. Scott, the new Director of Agricul ture.
Hong Kong, Taiwan? Wrong both times, it's Fiji, and these Chinese youngsters are having a whale of a time playing on a swing at Suva Point Beach. They're on a picnic held for the infant classes of the Fiji Chinese School —and they spent the
day playing. Below, this happy couple
have just got married at Port Moresby District Office. They are Mr. Harald Gnoyke, and Miss Ros witha Gerlack, of Germany, who is a former "Miss Berlin".
Photos: Bal Ram and Chin H. Meen.
Attending a recent three month course on economic and social development at the UN Asian Institute for Economic Develop ment and Planning in Bangkok, in the left hand picture, were, left to right, Messrs.
A. V. Jogia (Fiji), Douglas Moffatt (Aust.), Leo Migvar (Marianas), Olivia Maiava (Western Samoa), and Alwyn Shepherd (NZ). Below left, white sand, a blue lagoon and a lovely girl ... it could be anywhere in the South Pacific, but this particular picture was taken at Muri, Raro tonga.—Photos: Stan Whippy and Air NZ.
Below, Miss Lolohea Umuumulovo, 5 ft 10 in. beauty from the island of Lakeba, in Lau, is the first full Fijian girl to enter high fashion modelling in Australia. A younger sister of Adi Lady Liku, wife of the late Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, Miss Umuumulovo, 24, models for one of Mel bourne's leading agencies. She is also a qualified nursing sister, having trained at Prince Andrew's Hospital, Melbourne —where she also met her fiance, Dr. John Lament. They will marry in February. She posed for Binder Pal in Suva during 10 days' holiday in December.
Laurie Crowe from Fiji has something to smile about—she's just got back from a trip to Singapore and Australia, her prize for winning the Miss Hibiscus Beauty Queen title re cently. "Just beaut!" was her opinion of the trip. Photo by Binda Pal. The other pretty girl is Miss Rose Kakai, chosen from 21 contestants as Queen of the Solomon Islands Agricul tural and Produce Show in Honiara. On each side of Rose, who looks a little pensive, are the girls who came second and third.