SAMOAN CONTROL.
ATTACKS ON NEW ZEALAND. EXTRAVAGANT AND UNFAIR. (Py f able.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Mr. W. H. Triggs, in a letter to the "Herald," commenting on its special eommitfsipner'e Samoan article, says that he has not the least hesitation in saying that the chief cause of the agitation aguinst the New Zealand administration is thu resentment of white residents on account of the prohibition of intoxicants. Dp adds that the Government (if New Zealand U aeuated by the highest motives in their action. If it allowed resentment to influence its actions it would be false to its ideals of carrying out Ihe government of Samoa in the best interests of the natives, as the mandate enjoins it to do. The special commissioner, in a second article referring to the attacks on the administration, says: "An impartial observer cannot come to any other conclusion than that the diatribes which have been so widely published to the injury of New Zealand's reptitation, have been both extravagant and unfair. The administration is not nearly so bad as has been painted, though it is not by any means perfect."—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 213, 7 September 1921, Page 5
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