SAMOAN WELCOME
MR. NELSON’S RETURN MAU WOMEN PRESENT RECEPTION PASSES QUIETLY. (Special to P.A. bv Radio). APIA, May 16. Mr. O. F. Nelson aud family arrived at 8.30 a.m. to-day. Two motor launches bi ought his party and five Maui chiefs, who went over to meet them, from Pago Pago. The launches were met in the roadstead by one motor launch, three fautasi, and two row boats. Approximately 1500 Mau women were assembled on the foreshore. No male members of the Mau were there to meet him. The office staff of O. F. Nelson and Company, Ltd., met him at the end of the wharf, after which he walked through lines of women who raised a cheer for Taisi as he passed. There was no active demonstration and the reception passed off very quietly.
A Samoan welcome is being given this afternoon at Vaimoso village to Mr. G. E. L. Westbrook, who also returned. Mr. E. W. Gurr was taken to hospital at Pago Pago seriously ill.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 8
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167SAMOAN WELCOME Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 8
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