AGITATION IN SAMOA

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 8

AGITATION IN SAMOA

EFROPEANS AT ITS ROOT. MR NOSAVORTTIYS STRAIGHT REPLY. (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Suva. .1 une 19. Tim 1 lon. W. Nosworthy. Post-master-General of New Zealand, is a through passenger hy the \entuia for Sydney, en route to Auckland.

)Vhi*ii interviewed hero, lie said he had met six European delegates iron) a Citizens’ Committee, six native

chiefs, and about 1990 natives at

Apia, tlie capital of Samoa. lie referred to Hie petition to (lie High President of Ihe Gorman Parliament in Berlin in 1910 and said il covered almost the identical language

and the same grounds as the pros-nt attack on the Administration. The

signatures included two of the soul: delegation. lit' had received a petition from Faipules favouring the present Administration and the good work done and asking that certain

Europeans endeavouring to foment dissatisfaction ho made to cease interference with them. The King’s birthday celebrations bad been organised by agitators. He condemned that action and said ho was proper d

to take drastic stops to slop the agitation. He was satisfied the present

Administration was in the best ininterests of all. The agitation was not prompted by any regard for the real interests of the natives. Any success had been due to .misrepresentation.