SAMOAN POLICY.
NEW ZEALAND CRITICISED. AUSTRALIAN VISITOR’S VIEWS. (Received This Day, Noon.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr O. Buchanan, an insurance assessor, who has returned from a visit to Samoa, trenchantly criticised New Zealand’s Samoan policy. He said that New Zealand m&de a> terrihle mistake when she sent warships to Samoa. The natives were following a peaceful picketing policy, which would be tolerated in any country in the world except Italy. New Zealanders from the warship landed in full fighting equipment and were met on the beach by 400 aged men and women who neither offered on intended to offer resistance.
Samoa was quiet now but was still full of discontent. >
•Mr Buchanan spoke to Tamasese, who said the natives would refuse to cut any copra if the traders became tax-collectors under the scheme proposed by General Sir George Richardson. The - Island was eagerly waiting the arrival of the new Administrator. —Australian Press Association.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 156, 13 April 1928, Page 5
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