NEW ZEALAND’S DESTINY.
TO CONTROL ISLAND GROUPS. BETWEEN HAWAII AND DOMINION (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 « Tu o WELLINGTON;- Dec; : 16." »' Lhe Government tendered an official welcome yesterday to nine visiting chiefs from Western Samoa. In the absence of the Prime Minister, through indisposition, Sir Francis Bell presided over a large gathering, and in the course ot his remarks, in proposing the health or the visitors, he announced that the Government of New Zealand had been requested by the British Government to take over the control of the u moil Islands, near Samoa, “I think, 5 ne said, “we will assume* that duty subject to the approval of the Parliament of the Dominion, and in that as in the case c.f Samoa and all our dependencies in the Pacific, we will relieve the British. Exchequer of the I believe it is the destiny ot New Zealand to administer all the Island groups between Hawaii and New Zealand apart from those belonging to France.”'
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 December 1924, Page 5
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163NEW ZEALAND’S DESTINY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 December 1924, Page 5
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