BOYCOTT IN SAMOA

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 19, 22 January 1921, Page 9

BOYCOTT IN SAMOA

NATIVES AND HIGH PRICES.

Tho nativee of Samoa, as a protest against high prices, havo decreed a "sa," or boycott, of goods sold by island storekeepers. This has been in operation off and on for nearly two months, and, apart from its effect upon' tho storekeepers, has reduced the publio revenue considerably. Imports ha.v© ceased ■ largely, with a corresponding fall in revenue from Customs, and as there has 1 been a serious drop in copra, prices, caused indirectly by the 'sa," there has been a jrreat deficiency in tho copra production. .As the position was becoming serious, a recommendation was made and adopted that a commission bp eet up to investigate prices and allegations of profiteering. Tho commission, which consists of Chief Judgo Wilson, tho Collector of Customs, the manager of Burps, Philp and Co;—the latter nominated to represent the Apia Chamber of Commerce—and a leading native chief who is a . "faifule" or member of the native Parliament, will report about a fortnight hence.