PEOPLE IN SAMOA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1935, Page 22

PEOPLE IN SAMOA.

arrivals and departures. (From Our Own Correspondent.) APIA, September 26. The Rev. and Mrs. Conrad G. Stallan left Samoa by the last Maui Pomare for a vacation in England. On his return Mr. Stallan will be transferred to American Samoa. The Rev. H. S. Perkins is expected back here in December, when he will resume charge of London Mission activities. Meantime the Rev. S. H. F. Phillips, head of the Malua schools, is acting in his place. The Hon I. H. Carruthers, M.L.C., has received a communication from the New Zealand Government acknowledging the receipt of the residents’ petition asking for the appointment of Mr. A. C. Turnbull as Administrator of Samoa, and stating that full consideration will be given to the petition. Mr. Norrie, Commissioner of the High Court, Labour Commissioner and Crown Solicitor and Crown Prosecutor, is leaving Samoa in December next. Mr. R. V. Kay, of the New Zealand Mortgage Corporation, has been appointed to the position. Chief Judge J. H. Luxford is presiding at the session of the Land and Title Commission, where a lengthy calendar of native cases is to be heard. He will return to New Zealand by the next trip ”■*? the Maui Pomare. The Rev. Father O’Reilly, of Paris, France, has been paying Samoa is short visit. He has done a -lot of scientific research work of an ethnological and anthropological character in the Solomon Islands, which he intends to continue in other island groups, in the interest of the French Government, the Paris Ethnographical Museum and the Vatican Museum of Rome.