NEW ZEALAND AND SAMOA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 129, 3 June 1930, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND AND SAMOA.

New Zealand is the most loyal of the British colonies. New Zealanders are not only intensely patriotic, but they are very protiH , of their country. Their loyalty was proved by their coming in immediately to the aid of the Mother Country in her time of need and the large number of people they sent to take part in the biggest war in history. One can quite understand why they are so intensely loyal to the Mother Country, as New Zealand was populated from all parts of the British Isles. New Zealand had the honour of being the first to wrest any of the German possessions or protectorates from that country's control by the speedy occupation of Western Samoa by her forces in August, 1914. What seems most strange,, however, is that New Zealand, under the mandatory control of Samoa, penalises the Samoans and issues Orders-in-Council by which Samoans exhibiting the same patriotic enthusiasm for their country as New Zealanders do for theirs, are to be persecuted and imprisoned for being patriotic and loyal to their own traditions. The Samoans are not late arrivals hut have lived in their country under their own form of government many liuudreds of years before . the white men discovered New Zealand, aind therefore have every reason to be patriotic and proud of their ra.ce: Why is it that what is considered praiseworthy in New Zealand is in Samoa under New Zealand's control classed as disloyalty and sedition? Evidently as far, as between New Zealand and Samoa is con-- ; cerned "what is 6auce for the goose is not sauce for the gander." " G.E.L.W.