IN SAMOA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 March 1928, Page 9

IN SAMOA

RECENT REPORTS. GREATLY EXAGGERATED. SAYS PRIME! MINISTER. (BY TELEGRAPH—PEESS ASSOCIATION..) WELLINGTON, March 17. The Right Hon. J. G. Coates stated this afternoon that alarmist reports, recently circulated from unofficial sources in Samoa, were great exaggerated. llis information is that there was at.present no danger yf a breach of the peace and lives and property are not in jeopardy. SAMOAN TRAITS “STRAIGHT-OUT GENTLEMEN. ” WOMEN PERFECTLY SAFE, “If my wife were in Apia or in the backblocivs of Samoa I would not experience- the slightest anxiety for her safety.” This is the opinion which Col R. Logan, former Administrator of Samoa now visiting Auckland, entertains for the Samoan people, states an Auckland message to the “Wanganui Chronicle.”

“Samoans are gentlemen straightout,” the Colonel «aicl this morning, “and I notice- with great regret that there has been some concern expressed about the safety of the white women in the Islands.

Colonel Logan, who .arrived in New Zealand from England on Monday last, would nofi discuss the present trouble at the mandated territory because he had not been in touch with the situation since he relinquished the position of Administrator in 1919. He is in New Zealand to transact private, business and to visit his farm at BticklancLs.. After this he will return to Devonshire, where he has lived for the past, eight years.