WESTERN SAMOA

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 12

WESTERN SAMOA

THE MANDATES SESSION

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 29th November. The annual report for 1931 of the Mandatory for Western Samoa was examined on 9th November by the Permanent Mandates Commission with the assistance of Sir Thomas Wilford, accredited representative of New Zealand. Sir Thomas first" commended to the attention of the Commission an exhaustive anthropological study of tho Polynesian peoples, entitled "Sanioan Material Culture," by Dr. Te Eangi Hiroa, which explained many of the problems in the social and political development'of these peoples with which the mandatory Power has had to deal. In reply to questions, supplementary information was given in regard to justice and to health conditions ■ in Western Samoa. The Commission was also supplied with a list of the bilateral agreements in which Western Samoa is a party. A discussion took place on the administration of native affairs, and incidentally the late organisation of the Mau was discussed. Finally, consideration was given to the finances of the territory, trade conditions, and to matters of health, labour, and education.