PICTURE OF FALLS IN SAMOA
TOURIST MISLED BY STAMP (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 12. impressed by the attractive picture of the Aleisa Falls on a Western Samoa postage stamp, a New Zealander, Mr J. Thornton, decided to visit them, says an Apia correspondent He has returned from his trip with the firm conviction that the falls on the stamp are far more fascinating than the real thing. On the stamp, the falls are a mighty cataract surging over a wide face. At Aleisa, 13 miles inland from Apia, the only waterfall is a trickle dropping less than Bft into a pool where local women sometimes do their washing. After he had photographed the “phenomenon,” Mr Thornton asked the Mayor of Aleisa (Mr P. G. Westbrook) whether there had ever been a real waterfall there. “No,” said Mr Westbrook, “that is all there has ever been.” Everyone he has met. in Samoa knows that the stamp depicts a waterfall that is not there. Many of them said: “What does it matter? The stamp might attract tourists.”
A philatelists’ catalogue, says Mi Thornton, reports that the stamp was issued in Wellington.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27632, 13 April 1955, Page 14
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