BANANAS FROM SAMOA
DECISION OF INQUIRY COMMITTEE “COMPLAINTS UNJUSTIFIED” (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 2, 10.10 p.m.) APIA, January 1. The decision of the banana industry inquiry has been received by the Acting-Administrator of Samoa (Mr A. C. Turnbull) from Wellington, The decision is as follows; “The complaints are unjustified. Time and money have been wasted to no purpose at all. The banana scheme is entirely for Samoans, and not for New Zealand, and it is very well run indeed. We have every confidence in Mr Newton and the other officers in Samoa. “The Samoans have benefited by the scheme, and by the high price New Zealand is willing to pay for bananas to help Samoans. Sarpoans must help and not hinder the scheme if they want it to continue. If they think the scheme is for the benefit of New Zealand and not of Samoa, or for any reason arfe not satisfied, let them say so. “If the Samoans do not want the banana scheme, or such complaints continue, we will arrange to stop the scheme at once, and New Zealand will buy bananas elsewhere, and the Maui Pomare will be used for other purposes.”
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Press, Issue 22599, 3 January 1939, Page 11
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