THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
EVIDENCES OF PROGRESS. By Tdegrapii.—Press Association. Auckland, Nov. 30. The Hon. Mr. Bagnall, Minister of Finance in Tonga, is a passenger by the Tofua on a holiday visit. He says the fruit season in Tonga appeared to be a good one. Mr. A. B. Ross, A.D.C. to the Administrator of Samoa, a passenger by the Tofua, said there had been a little squabble down there, but it had been satisfactorily settled. He expressed the opiuion that Samoa had turned the corner and a great future was assured. Dr. Ritchie, chief medical officer at Samoa, a passenger on the Tofua, stated that the health of the people during the past year had been exceptionally good. Hookworm had been successfully tackled and would soon be stamped out.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19261201.2.99
Bibliographic details
Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1926, Page 11
Word Count
128THE PACIFIC ISLANDS Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1926, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in