SAMOAN MANDATE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 February 1925, Page 8

SAMOAN MANDATE.

NEW ZEALAND CONGRATULATED

The Permanent Mandate Commission of the League of Nations, at its recent sitting, congratulated New Zealand on Jts administration of Western Samoa. , . , , , The. official, report, wlnen lias lieeri received bv the Minister of External Affairs (Sir Francis Belli is as loilows "The chairman thought that the report on Western Samoa was one or the best and most comprehensive reports which had yet been laid be tore :he Commission. The date oil which it arrived was also worthv of notice. Although Western Samoa was the mandated territory which was fnrtlwrst from the seat of the Commission, a report on its ailministrati.il up to March 31. 1924, had been dispatched on June 5, and received at the Secretariat on August 7. This was extremely satisfactory; and he desired, in the name of the Commission, to thank Sii fames Allen, and to congratulate the Government of New Zealand on the administration of the mandated territory and on the efficiency with winch they were carrying out their duties as administrators of the mandate. Elie report concerned could serve as a model for other mandatory Powers. The following also appears under U'e heading “General Observations c “The Commission expresses its satisfaction with the form in which the report on Samoa was presented. It has been prepared by the Administrator for the information of the League of Nations, and is drawn upon the basis of tjie questionnaire with commendable clearness and precision. Although it covers the period of the year up to March 31, 1924, the report reached the Commission with a pr-'iinotness worthy of all praise. “The Commission has pleasure in congratulating the mandatory Power upon the satisfactory way in which it is applying to the territory the principle ot Article 22 of the Covenant. and cf the mandate, particularlv as regards public health, the lirjuor traffic, education and the regulation if labour conditions. “Labour. —The Commission notes with satisfaction the excellent re suits obtaining from the application -f (he ordinance regarding free Cliinp o lali nir, ad of penal sanctions for rkacn note with interest ot the sup ipnicnfarv statistics supplied by the accredited representative, and it ha< flirt '‘jv not 'd the promise- which lie has m do to obtain information erh-i-erning measures taken for the repatriation of workers from other Melanesian islands.”