SAMOAN TROUBLE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 9

SAMOAN TROUBLE

PROBING THE CAUSES 1 INQUIRIES AT GENEVA .Australian Press Association—United Servlcq. GENEVA, -22nd June. The Mandates Commission did not conclude tho examination of Sir James Parr and Sir George Eiehardson concerning Samoa. They will be further examined to-morrow. ( The questions and answers closely followed tho lines of the Eoyal Commission's report, but various members put questions based on the petition submitted by Mr. Nelson and certain natives. ' ' One question related to a complaint that the Samoans* had not been introduced into the Legislative Council, as promised. . It xwas explained that this proposal originated in 'New Zealand in 1923, but that tho chiefs did not respond. .' ■ -. Sir t ,Georgo Richardson said that ho waa convinced that the natives did not want representation. Moreover, the Eoyal Commission pointed out tho dangers involved. Sir James Parr told the Mandates Commission' that the native agitation grew to large proportions owing to the unceasing and unscrupulous agitation of half a dozen whites, while the Administrator had neither the legal power nor the polico foreo necessary to deal with tho agitators.