PEACE IN SAMOA

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1928, Page 12

PEACE IN SAMOA

ADMINISTRATOR'S WORK TERMS TO MAU PRISONERS (Special to Press Association, by Radio.) APIA, 6th March. The terms of tho Administrator (Sir George Richardson) to the Mau prisononers were to obey the laws, act constitutionally in the future, and put matters before him, through tho Samoan District Councils, and not through the committee of Europeans. The chiefs and faipules to make their own laws, as already provided, with reforenco to fine mats, the use of lands, and any other matters of Samoan custom. SELECTING FAIPULES. Permission is granted to chiefs and tho faipulo in each district to meet immediately and hold a district council to select a faipule, if dissatisfied with tho present occupant of the faipuleship; I also to appoint a deputy-faipule to tho district councils. . ■ • ' Tho Administrator stipulated that the Palauli district must apologise for its insulting conduct in Apia a month or two ago, when a demonstration was made before,the Government Buildings. Obscene songs were publicly sung, and firearms discharged. EFFOKT TO END THE MAU. The thirty-three Faipules who .constitute- the Native Parliament presided over by the Administrator, decided on legislation affecting the .Samoans. It was agreed to" invite tho Administrator to visit'the various districts to discuss any matters pertaining to local welfare, to hold gatherings of all factions in each district in an endeavour to bring the Samoans into unity, and then hold a big gathering near Apia on 16th March to terminate the Mau movement. . Later on a deputation of chiefs will visit New Zealand to learn, at first hand the attitude of the New Zealand Government towards them.