A STOWERS.

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 23, Issue 33, 17 August 1923, Page 2

A STOWERS.

WANTED TO SELL QUICKLY A LIMITED SUPPLY OF FIREWOOD. A word of advice to my fellow countrymen. No doubf you will agree with, me that the progress of Samoa rests with us permanent settlers, but especially those of us are born and bred in dear Samoa. The progress of Samoa depends on what we can pro : duce ; it is a duty of everyone of us who owns a few acres of land to" put it uDder cultivation ; otherwise you are only a parasite. Unless we will wake up and do our duty, Samoa in the near future will be '■ uma lava." As an experiment on banana planting for exportation (also to keep me busy, as I cannot find sufficient work on my particular line of busines l , a business where the Government interfere and hold the monopoly; a Government who favour foreigners who after three and five years term leave the country with our money, and leave us the poorer): I am now cutting down about 20 acres of bush land, and in order to reduce my working business I am cutting the timber into co ds, as firewood. . In order to encourage the sale/of this firewood, as I want to dispose, of them as quickly as possible in order to give me time to commence my planting operation during the coming raining season, I am offering with every cord a bunch of bananas or 151bs. taros.