OUR NURSLING—SAMOA

Evening Star, Issue 19588, 21 June 1927, Page 13

OUR NURSLING—SAMOA

LABOR ALLEGES GERMAN METHODS (Fes United Press Association,} GIIEYMOUTH, June 20. Mr H. E, Holland, M.P., Leader ol the Opposition, arrived in Greymouth this evening on his way to Wellington for the of the session. Speaking with reference to the Hon. Mr Nosworthy’s statement made at Suva affecting Samoa, Mr Holland said L.. 0 Samoan position was altogether unsatisfactory, and would have to be seriously discussed by Parliament. > It seemed to him that in our administration we were copying some of the worst features of the German pre-war control. Parliamentary representation of both the Samoans and the whites was rendered farcical by reason of the fact that in the former case the Faipules were appointed by the Administration, and in tho latter case the electoral qualincation was on a property and _ income basis. Mr Nosworthy had omitted to mention that the leading members of tho deputation referred to by himself as agitators were members of the Legislative Council elected by the, white population, with substantial majorities over the Government candidates, notwithstanding that all the dice were loaded in favor of the latter. t Tho MiNelson stigmatised by Mr Nosworthy was the senior legislative councillor, and' so far as ho (Mr Holland) knew was born in Samoa, . Tho making of an Order in Council empowering the Administrator to order a native-born citizen of a naturalised subject to leave Samoa because ho persisted in opposing the Government’s policy there was an outrage which could not be permitted to go unchallenged. Mr Nosworthy ! s attack on those who sought to make constitutional changes was strangely similar to some the attacks on Robert Louis Stevenson when ho was engaged in demanding justice for Samoa and tho Samoans soma forty years ago.