SAMOAN MANDATE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9

SAMOAN MANDATE

A SACRED TRUST

MR. NOSWORTHY SPEAKS OUT

AGITATORS NOT WANTED

(United Press Agsociation.-tCopjrigut.) SUVA, 19th, June. The Hon. W. Nosworthy. is a through passeagor by the Ventura for Sydney, en route to Auckland. Interviewed 1 here, Mr. Nosworthy saia: he met six European delegates from the. Citizens' Committee; six nativo chiefs, and about a thousand natives,at Apia. He referred to a petition to _the High President of the German Parliament in' Berlin in 1910, and said it covered almost identical language and the same grounds as the present attack; on the Administration. The signatures included two ofthe present delegation. : '■'■ ' ■ Mi•.Nosworthy said heVhad received' a petition from the faipules favouring, tho present Administration, and good works done, and asking,that certain Europeans endeavouring to foment dissatisfaction be made to cease. Interference with the King's Birthday celebrations, had been organised by agitators. Mr.- Nosworthy condemned their t»t OTx 3f- 4 said he waa P^Pared to take drastic steps to stop the agitation. He v^as satisfied the present Administration was in the best interests of all. me agitation was not prompted by any regard for the real interests of the natives, and any success it had achieved naa been due to misrepresentation. Eftorts to disunite and upset a fine race liice the Samoans was criminal, and de-served-to T>e treated as a crime. The New Zealand Government accepted the mandate as a sacred trust. ■ The Planters' Association had assured him that it dissociated itself from the Citizens' Committee. .

Mr. Ivosworthy told Mr. Nelson, one of the deputation, that if there were further agitation the Citizens' Committee would be held directly responsible. He would give a reasonable and fair time for them to undo the trouble. He was not going to have wool puJied over /^ S" He wa3 giving the committee a nrst and last reasonable chance to undo the intrigue, before action : was threatened. ,:-..■:

Mr. Nosworthy later received a radio message from the PremierCof * Samoa as follows: "Immigration order Amended to enable the Administrator of Samba as directed by the Governor, to-order any person to leave Samoa ;f the Administration were satisfied that such person was disaffected or disloyal, or likely to be -a source of danger to the peace, order, and good government of the territory." Mr. Nosworthy and Mr. Gray were entertained at luncheon by the Suva Chamber of Commerce. . The guests included the Governor, the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph Carruthers, and Mr. R. A Farrar, of New South Wales. ■:'