APPEAL DISMISSED.
CASE OF SAAIOAN CHIEFS DECIDED. VALIDITY OF ACT UPHELD. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 21. In the case of the appeal of the Samoan chiefs against their sentence of banishment, the Court of Appeal dismissed the case. , , The judgment of Justices Sim, Herdman, Reed and Adams was delivered by Air Justice Sim, to tine effect (1) that the Samoa Act, 1921. was not ultra vires of the powers of the legislature of New Zealand : (2) that New Zealand and not the King was the mandatory under the mandate given by the League of Nations; (3) that the term “Goveminent of Xew Zealand,’ * tvs used in the mandate, means the Parliament of New Zealand; (4) that the Samoan offenders ordinance of 1922 was notrepudiant to the Samoan Act of 1921 Air Justice Ostler dissented from the above judgment, holding that the ordinance was in fact nepudiant to the Act of 1921.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 October 1927, Page 9
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153APPEAL DISMISSED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 October 1927, Page 9
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