Local and General.

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 26, Issue 46, 12 November 1926, Page 4

Local and General.

On the roll of electors for the Legislative Council of Western Samoa, compiled for the election to be held this month, the names of 222 persons in all are set down.

On Thursday evening of next week a brass band concert will be given in the bandstand at the Customhouse reserve, Apia. The full program is advertised on page 7.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, last Wednesday, set up a committee to go into the question (in conjunction with other churches) of broadcasting church services.

In another column appears an advertisement which sets out the days and hours for consultations with the visiting medical officer at Apia. It should be noted that on Wednesdays the visiting officer will be absent from Apia, and that residents requiring medical advice or help on that day should telephone No. 27 ; or visit Apia Hospital.

The value of wireless was demonstrated on the arrival of the "Lady Roberts" at the Tokelau Islands, this week. Mr James, of the Apia wireless staff, had gone there to erect a wireless Post, and he sent his first message through in quite a short time after arrival. The news couveyed was that the a.k. "Tokelau" had piled up on the reef at Fakaofo, and was a total wreck. This is unfortunate for the local Company Burns, Philp (S.S.) Co., Ld.-as the "Tokelau" had been refitted only recently. The Union Islands are fast becoming a burial gronnd for ships, and it would seem that the only safe manner of 'navigation in those parts is "steam." There are no particulars to hand as to how the casualty happened.

The establishment of a wireless station at the Tokelaus, this week, makes the fifth station in nse in and around these parts. Salailua will shortly be connected up by wireless.

Records of temperature (Fahr.) taken daily at 1 p.m. in the Samoa Times office show as follow:—Friday sth Nov. 83, Saturday 84, Sunday 81, Monday 83, Tuesday 84, Wednesday 78, Thutfty 82,

A basket-ball match was played at Mulivai on Friday last, between the " A " teams of the Marist Brothers' school and the Latter Day Saints' School (Pesega). The scores were: L. D. S. 11 points, Marist 9. The game was fast and interesting. Afterwards the " B " teams of these schools met, and in this match the Marists won by 13 points to 2. This also was an interesting game, Mr P. Wild referced in both matches. The following paragraph, from the "Polyuesian Gazette, refers to a former resident of Apia:—"The Levuka Sailmaking Establishment has changed hands. Mr C. W. Pugh disposed of his business to Captain C. O. Anderson (late s.s. "Motusa") of Levuka. Captain Anderson is wellknown in Fiji and also to have had a great deal of experience especially in the line of sailmaking and rigging of vessels and he will prove a great acquisition to the place. Some years ago the genial skipper conducted a similar establishment in Samoa. The debt that we owe to the observatory at Samoa —one of the best-equipped in the Southern Hemisphere—w a s emphasised by Dr E. Marsden the other evening at a meeting of the astronomical section of the Wellington Philosophical Society, and he expressed the hope that before long we would be able to boast of such an Up-to-date observatory in the Dominion itself (states the Evening Post). The Samoan observatory, a German legacy from the Great War, was described during the evening by Mr C. J. Westland, the assistant director and seismologist, who is at present on leave in the Dominion. A large number of lantern slides gave a graphic pictorial representation of the buildings and the work carried on therein.