Training

Marine

School For

Western

Samoa

A large quantity of equip

ment has arrived in Western Samoa for the new marine training school. The school is

being built by Samoa Shipping

Services Ltd, a joint Western

Samoa-Columbus Shipping

Line Company formed to oper ate and manage the vessel that Western Samoa will be con tributing to the Pacific Forum

Shipping Line.

So far 20 candidates have ap plied for entrance to the school

although formal applications

have not yet been called for.

The applicants will be inter viewed in due course by rep resentatives of Samoa Shipping Services and the Samoan Government.

The final plans and cost estimates for the school have

been prepared by the Special

Projects Development Corpor

ation of Western Samoa and the plans are being forwarded to Hamburg for approval of the head office of the Columbus Line and the West German Government.

The seamanship training

school will include three build ings providing full facilities for

seamanship training and dor

mitory accommodation. It will be established on Upolu near Satapuala, where some of the old buildings that formed part of the old sea-plane base are

being pulled down.

The school will enrol 24 students in each course. They will spend three months at the school on basic training and about nine months at sea be fore they become qualified seamen. Some of the trainees will be trained on a specially equipped vessel owned by the Columbus Line,