ANOTHER TUNE!

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12919, 22 July 1936, Page 5

ANOTHER TUNE!

•Samoa for the Samoans; TAMASESE’Si PLEA TO QCfbpWILL MISSION; ,D (11 1’ A -h — »i . '‘MAKE SAMOA A PROTECTORATE” Hon. Mr. Langstone ? s Angry Outburst “WE DON’T WANT SAMOA OR YOUR BAFfA^ASP 5 (U.P.A. by Elcc.f Tel. Copyright). (Received July 21, 11.30 p.m.) APIA, July 20. (From tho special correspondent of the United Press Association .with the official New Zealand mission.) When the goodwill delegates arrived at Vaiinoso this morning to resume the conference with the Samoan representatives they were received by about sixty Mau guardsmen armed 1 with batons, this is tho first time for a number of years that members of the movement as a body have • paraded in public with batons.

The Avjiole day Avas spent in a friendly exchange of vieAvs, with no finality reached except on the question of Ayhether the NatNe advisers to tho Legislative Council should bo re-elected, with the Mau participating, and on which divergent opinions are held by tho tivo political sections in Western Samoa. It was agreed that the matter be further discussed among the villages themselves and the decisions, if,any, reported to a gathering to bo held in September, . High Chief Tamasqse suggested that tho delegation should recommend tho Government' to change Samoa from a mandated territory 7 ot a protectorate. It was the desire of the Samoans, he said, to manage thenOAvn affairs.

"All right," sajd Mr Langstone. “|f you are stupid enough to believe you would be better off that way, well go right ahead., We don’t want Samoa; we don’t want your bananas. We donlt want the Maui Pomare when you get a protectorate. See where It will land you. You will be in for a hot time, believe me. As I hqve said on dozens of occasions, our sole desire is to act as big brothers and to do everything possible in your interests.”

Tnmascse said the Samoans AA'cre not concerned about iron©?', .because they could got along quite well without it. They dkl not want to break from Britain. They Avanted the protection of the Noav Zealand Government, but the, right to manage their own affairs.

Tnimalbaliifano. an Ancient high chief, and an old friend of Bobert Louis Stevenson, begged'-tho Minister not to lie angry and excite Samoa, because it Avas still sick.

Tho mooting concluded at a laic hour, leaving the delegates Avith the impression of little prospect of an agreement on the main issues until tho Hon. O. Nelson’s ieturn on Wednesday.

Tho Minister had agreed to hold an all-day conference with Mr. Nelson and tho Man on Thursday. The goodwill mission will leave for New Zealand that evening.

nothing should be- later d sefosed AA'hich the ’Government had not already revealed. Mr Neville . Chamberlain 'said that ivhat, AA*as required was largely common sense, determination and industry, all of which Sir T. Inskip possessed Sir T. Inskip had .every reason to he satisfied with the progress made. The Chancellor added that a secret session could not be held in pp.tace-time ivithout arousing unauthorised rumors and speculation, stirring up the country'. The Government would ’lie prepared to receive a, deputation such, as Mr Churchill had suggested, but members could not expect to receive infonnat.on withheld from the country. , The lit. Hon. Alexander declared that, it AvaS • useless to suggest that the £800,000,000 Germany had ’spent in-building up her,army, navy, and a*r.;force compared Avith the expenditure of Britain, which had th? most poAverful. fleet in the Avorld, Avorth at least £1,200 000,000. The Government would never get Labor support, except on the condition that; the military expenditure exactly ipci the requirements of collective security 7, and that British (armaments Avere to be used not os .an instrument qf national policy, but in support of the covenant of the 'League" against aggression. . i - I -T S‘tvT. Inskip, AvOiding up the debate, insisted that the very heart, of responsibility, connected with collectivo:. 'security, imposed an obligation on the-British people to recognise that?:! it: imperilled‘Britain, and the Empire they must defend it. The Labor . motion to reduce . the supplementary A 7 ote, including Lord liiskipi® /salary, was -defeated by 320 votf-s to 155. t- , i -