SAMOAN PROBLEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 4

SAMOAN PROBLEMS.

AN IMPROVING OTTTI»OOK

PROCESSOR MAKSDF.X'S VIEWS.

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WELLINGTON, this day.

Interestiiiß opinions, upon progress-in ileali..- with Samoan problems are given by Professor Mars.len. who has j«st.returned from an extended tour of tnai territorx Professor Marsden stated that he 'found things were very much happier and more settled in Samoa than ,>ii his previous visits. Some of tlie older residents were still somewhat bitter about the enforeemc-nt of prohibition, and were hopeful that some kind ot permit sv.tJ wouhl be introduced, Iβ* as obtains in Quebec, or Bntu» Columbia. I'iidoiihtedt.v, in of prohibition, a large amount of home brewing was carried on. hilt nucli li-ivor was pro.luced of more t»»n :i per cent proof lie was unable to People in Samoa wen- very an" its commercial progresß. am} co-op»r ttive schemes for the marketing ot urodtK-tH were at present under consm atioil. The possible cstablishni.-nt o^ »-as now almost prohibitive in its tt£ rost Miilifauna plantation, the large* 1 )f those belonaii.p to Crown estates, wu in poo,l or,ler. ami workinp »moojW and scientifically, lie understood th" many of the smaller Government estate were not paying because of lawn"" pultief.. and 'it would prohnbly be l*«" tn give many of these estate? »«•»> suitable appiicantb.