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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 95, 22 April 1924, Page 4

"I cannot understand why so many people declare that Samoa is unhealthy," remarked Mr. A. T. Dick, relieving manager of the Crown Estates at Samoa, in conversation with a "Star" representative this morning. Mr. Dick said he had spent many years in the Pacific Islands, and his opinion was that Samoa was the healthiest. He \ considered there was a great future for Samoa. A trader, touching on the same question, remarked that in many cases sick people secured positions in the Islands, and when their health broke down utterly the climate was blamed, no notice being taken of the fact that these people were in bad health when they left New Zealand. Fearing neither the moonlight nor the rending of garments, taking with serene impudence the risks of detection as trespassers, a number of persons cliimbed over the Carisbrook fences in Dunedin the other night to see the pageant. Most of them (observes the local "Star") seemed to be grown men, some of the age at which walking sticks are carried. No word to be found in the dictionary exactly describes such intruders. ' As a contrast to the action of the fenceclimbers, we may mention that the management has received much encouragement by letters and otherwise, and the mail brought a communication enclosing fl from a delighted Scottish visitor. Mr. R. A. Farcjujiarson, one of the New Zealanders who have taken up the burden of' Empire in its remote parts, writes our London correspondent, is in London from -omaliland, where he is Government Geologist, and is accompanied by his wife. He is in London preparing a report on the mineral resources of the protectorate for the Colonial Office. He is at present working at the Imperial Institute, South. Kensington, and will be in London at least the next four months. Mr. Farquharson came to England—and Oxford—in 1916 as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, and has obviously made good and justified his being chosen to benefit by the Khodes Trust. A very ancient landmark in Anderson's Bay is fast disappearing (says the "Otago Daily Times"). The old Government School, which has served as the Church of St. Michael and All Angels for over thirty years, is being demolished, with a view to the erection of a newchurch on the site. Large congregations attended the last services in the old building, including many persons who had once been pupils at the school, and '■ several who had been present at its transformation into a place of worship. The fabric was in the last stage of dilapidation. A peculiar view to enunciate in a conciliation council was set forth by the representative of the furniture workers recently, says the "Wairarapa News." He said: "The employer produces nothing and takes most. It is the worker who produces all. Our position is that the worker should get the lot, and we are I going to keep going until we get it." When they "get the Jot" there is hardly likely to be anything for anybody. Not much conciliation about this conciliator's •remark. A Ceputation representating Waihi Borough and Miners' Union leave for Wellington to-day to interview the I Premier and Minister of Public Works I relative to the employment of men discharged by the Waihi Grand Junction Company.