BARRISTER'S PETITION
AFFAIRS IN SAMOA
CLAIM BY MR. P. B. FITZ- \ HERBERT
> Compensation totalling £350 and a declaration that his professional conduct in Samoa had been correct and honourable were asked for by Patrick Buckley Fitzherbert, barrister, of Wellington, in a petition presented to Parliament yesterday.
The petitioner said that he went to Apia in May, 1930, and though the. Administrator of Western Samoa: (Colonel S. S. Allen) was at first inclined to refuse him a licence to practise because he had criticised the aptions of the Administration of Western Samoa in the Press of New Zealand, he was finally granted an unconditional licence. In July the licence was cancelled, the Administrator giving rib grounds for his decision. The petitioner said that while he was in Samoa 'he did everything to improve the: relations between the New; Zealand Government, the Administrator, Snd the Sambans.: No- charge of professional misconduct was made against h'irn. He had good reason to '• believe that.-through laxity- in procedure a gTreat number of orders for imprisonment., for/ non-payment of taxes was ineffective, and that his sucjeess on this ground, in defending Samoans, was inimical,to the' Administrator's plans. .'
"The, petition! was presented by the Minister of. Health- (the Hon. P. Fraser)'>, c . .., .. • ~. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 78, 1 April 1936, Page 8
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205BARRISTER'S PETITION Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 78, 1 April 1936, Page 8
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