LIFE IN SAMOA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16589, 12 January 1916, Page 3

LIFE IN SAMOA

QUIET AND UNEVENTFUL. HEALTH EXCELLENT. "The finest country in the world, and the most beautiful," said Colonel Logan (Administrator of Samoa) to a reporter yesterday. referring to the island. Colonel Logan is in Dunedin on private business, and will leave for the north on Friday, returning to Samoa next month. Most of the men of the present garrison, ho said, are the "reliefs" who are over 40 years of ago. There are about four hundred Germans still on the island, but the administrative positions are, of oourSe, in the hands of Britishers. The health of the men has been excellent, and the fact that no rrnin has died of any ailment contracted on the! island speaks well for the hygienio conditions that obtain. There has been an absolutely clean sheet as far as venereal diseases are concerned. "Have you had any excitement since tho German fleet had its southern tentacles cut?" tile Colonel was asked. "Well, we have a lot of excitement with centipedes sometimes," he said laughingly. "Human enemies, however, are a minus quantity." One gathered that life on the island is unoventfuL A few lines of the principal war news are obtained and posted - up every day, 'but the affairs of the busy world do not intrude themselves much. Tho men are happy and contented, and if they have no excitement to speak of they are also free from worries.