PEACEFUL SAMOA

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3848, 3 October 1932, Page 5

PEACEFUL SAMOA

NEW ZEALAND'S AMBITION

SIR T. WIL FORD’S DEFENCE

(Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London. October l

At. tlie League of Nations’ Assembly’ the New Zealand delegate, Sir Thomas Wilford, paid a tribute to tile work of fie Mandates Co nun ifsion. Ho said the best testimony to the peacefulness of Samoa was the fact that his weekly telegrams from, tho New Zealand Government had not mentioned Samoa since tile Mandates Commission last met in Nove.-r.-hsr. He praised' the Oommis.-i»n”s assistance in producing the present pacific state of ' Western Samoa, where New Zealand's, ambition wax to enable the SanmaTig and New Zee landers to live in amity. The Australian Press Association’s representative says Sir Thomas Milford's defence ot New Zealand’s adm inis,tration of iiiVo Samoan ntaindaie arose from an inference in tin’ speech of the Norwegian delegate, .Mr Carl Andvord that, further disturbances had occurred there recently. Mr Andvord afterwards cxpred-cd appreciation of Sir Vaninas \\ ilford’s explantation.

Tlie Australian delegate, Mr Cameron, gave, .an excellent, summary of Australia’s task in New Guinea,, which was also w-eft ■eecnivt'd. In the interests ’of economy, the League Council recently decided that the Mandates Cornitri-pion Should moot once instead of. twice yearly. Norway non- pro pelf's a neversinn to the bi-annual meeting.