OUR SAMOAN POLICY
FRAKK CRITICISM Press Association--By Telegraph—Copyright. ’ SYDNEY, April 13. (Received April 13, at noon.) Mr C. Buchanan, an insurance assessor, who has returned Ironi a visit to Samoa, trenchantly criticised New Zealand’s Samoan policy. He said New Zealand had made a terrible mistake when it sent warships to Samoa. The natives were following a peaceful picketing policy, which would he tolerated in any country in the world except Italy. New' Zealanders ironi tiic warship landed in full fighting equipment. They were met on the beach by 400 aged men and women, who neither offered nor intended to offer resistance. Samoa was quiet now, but it was still full of discontent. Mr Buchanan spoke lo Tamasese, who said-the natives would refuse to cut any copra if the traders became tax collectors under the scheme proposed by Sir George Richardson. The island was eagerly waiting the arrival of the new Administrator.
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Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 6
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151OUR SAMOAN POLICY Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 6
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