SAMOAN COMMISSION.
ADMINISTRATION’S- CASE OPENED. (Special to Press Ash. —By Radio.) APIA, Oct. 12. Mr 0. F. Nelson, replying to Mr McCormack. before the Royal Commission, said he supposed the reason why 70 or more Samoans for several weeks remained in Apia, disobeying the Administrator's orders to return to their homes, was “because they objected to being ordered about like children.” Sir Charles Skerrett: “That, Mr Nelson, is rather typical of some of your observations in the presence of Samoans. It is an incendiary way of talking.” Counsel for the Citizens’ Committee acquiesced in the Commission’s new procedure, and Mr Meredith opened the case for the Administration to-day. He intimated that he would call four representative village police to depose regarding the effects of the Mau, also four agricultural inspectors and four village judges to show that the Mau was'usurping the functions of the Government.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 October 1927, Page 7
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