ADMINISTRATION OF SAMOA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19032, 21 June 1927, Page 15

ADMINISTRATION OF SAMOA.

MR H. E. HOLLAND'S VIEW. (PRES3 ASSOCLmOH TSLIOBAJt.) GREYMOUTH, June 20. Mr H. E. Holland, M.P., Leader of the Opposition, arrived in Greymouth this evening on his way to Wellington for the session's opening. Speaking with reference to the Hon. Mr Nos worthy's statement made at Suva affecting Samoa, Mr Holland said the Sainoan position was altogether unsatisfactory and would have to be seriously discussed by Parliament. It seemed to him thai in New Zealand's Administration they were copying some of the worst features of the German pre-war control. Parliamentary representation of both the Samoans and the whites was rendered farcical by reason of the fact that in the former case the Faipuics were appointed by the Administration and in the latter case tho electoral qualification was on a property and income basis. Mr Xosworthy had omitted to mention that the leading members of the deputation, referred to by himself as agitators, were members of the Legislative Council elected by the white population with substantial majorities over the Government candidates. Notwithstanding that all the dice were loaded in favour of the latter, Mr Nelson, who was stigmatised by Jlr Xosworthy was the senior Legislative Councillor, and so far as he (Mr Holland) knew was born in Samoa. The making of an Order-in-Council empowering the Administrator to order a native-born citizen or a naturalised subject to leave Samoa because he persisted in opposing the Government's policy there was an outrage which could not be permitted to go unchallenged. Mr Nosworthy's attack on those who sought to make Constitutional changes was strangely similar to - some of the attacks on Robert Louis Stevenson when he was engaged in demanding justice for Samoa and the Samoans some 40 years ago.

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