SAMOA'S FAREWELL
ADMINISTRATOR SAILS MAU STILL IN EVIDENCE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES (Special to Press Association by Eadio.) APIA, 7th April. Over two thousand Samoans gathered at Mulinuu to-day to give an enthusiastic farewell to General Sir George Bichardson. The ceremonies consisted of dances, singing, and speech-making. Several gaily-decorated fautasi, each manned by forty rowers, escorted the departing Administrator to the steamer. In Apia town since Thursday some two thousand illegal Mau police, in uniform of purple, many carrying big sticks, have been demonstrating in an uncompromising manner. To-day unsympathetic Samoans forcibly removed at least two young men from 'the procession of loyal natives en route to the send-off to the" Administrator. Yesterday an illegal meeting of Mau police at Apia was illegally addressed by Fau^ muina, a chief recently removed from his natiye village by order of the Administrator because of his activity in Mau matters. . Undoubtedly a policy of breaking ordinances, but no bones, is still being pursued by the Mau.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 9
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161SAMOA'S FAREWELL Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 9
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