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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 69, 15 December 1919, Page 15

lu iho course of his address in tho Kinc's Tiieilro last evening, tho Rev. T. ]:'. Taylor made reference to the questioit oi indentured labour in Sitmcii, about, v.likli he said then; had been a lot of talk. If Samoa, he pointed out, were bit, to the Samonns, tho Japaneoa would grab it, and .Inpan had not got (lie same toolings of .---('J:tiiiifdt that I lift f.rit.ish hail in colonising. Japan -vould luke it. if stie hail the chance, and run if v.'ilh indent iri d labour on far harsher lines than those proposed under the .New Xi':il» id mandate While the British luui their failures they were aduiilleJlv the lim-l and most generous csf all nations ie ill" matter of colonising. They had only to look at the !l;;er;: in ,-"i>;:i!i Africa and !h" .Maoris 'in \ r 'v.' Zealand for conlirniaiiou of that. "What are we," he cuntiuued, "to do v.'ilh Samoa r We can't leave it to sland alone so long as other countries have eves on ii. We can hold Samoa for file benel'.! of the Saiuoa.us with iiiilonlured Inbour. It : s cinite all right under humane treatment, and 1 have ion much confidence in our greatness and ii.e avians e.f our Knipire to believe that we can crush a subject race without conscience. Wo aro trustees, nnd it behoves us to tarry out our trus--1 teeship."