LABOUR IN POWER

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 299, 18 December 1935, Page 9

LABOUR IN POWER

SAMOAN REACTION.

•NEW ZEALAND ELECTIONS.

WHO WILL ADMINISTER?

(Prom Our Own Correspondent.) APIA (Western Samoa), April 5,

The result of the New Zealand elections has caused surprise and considerable interest among Europeans and natives in Western Samoa. Generally the change of Government is applauded and the inhabitants of the Mandated territory await with interest an announcement as to what the Samoan policy of the new Labour Government k to be. The new Government has a clean sheet !" re S ar <l to Samoan affairs, and thereore should be able to effect a settlement of the outstanding differences with 0 Samoans, which have caused the ormation of the Mau or native opposition party. The planting community looks askance a the prospect of the introduction of of the principles of Labour in amoa. The wage for Chinese coolies, r nc * w Samoa, is said to be 6 highest the plantation industry can and and the application of New Zeaan wage rates to Samoa might retard 6 plantation industry, which has not e Sained the level of a. few years ago. e new Labour Government has also een left 0 £ appointing a new fflinistrator of Samoai as successor to tj ® eere^el ~t Hart, who completed his crnj 0 f o gj ce some nion tij S a g Q an{ j re . E d to New Zealand. At P r esent Mr. A. C. Turnbull, who as assistant to the Administrator, is tnporarily filling the office. Further - - s are awaited, witb- interest..,