SAMOAN AFFAIRS.
PREMIER WILL NOT INTERVENE. <Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 13. Sir John Findlay lias been in communication with the Prime Minister during the vacation asking him to suspend further action against the Hon. O. F. Nelson (Samoa) until the reopening of the Supreme Court. To this request. Mr Ooates has replied that nothing in the ciroumstances stated would justify special intervention by the Government. In forwarding advice of this reply to the Auckland office of O. F. Nelson, Limited, Sir John states that the Government appears to have committed itself to a policy of drastic repression, and it will require some very drastic influence to deter it.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 80, 14 January 1928, Page 4
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109SAMOAN AFFAIRS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 80, 14 January 1928, Page 4
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