SAMOAN ISSUE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 June 1928, Page 7

SAMOAN ISSUE

MR. NELSON AT GENEVA. WILL NOT EE RECEIVED. COMMISSION SITS IN SECRET. '(Australian Tress Association—United Service.) Received 10.50 a.m. to-dav. GENEVA, June 19. The Samoan question, originally on to-day’s agenda paper, lias been postponed until to-morrow. Tne Hon. O. F. Nelson, his daughter and secretary are still at Geneva and are occupying a suite in the best hotel. Sir George Richardson and Sir Joseph Ward are staying at a hotel two minutes away, but there is no likelihood, however, of their meeting, either in the presence of the commission or privately. Mr. Nelson sought to place his case before various- members of the- commission with varying degrees of success, according to the differing views* of the members on the propriety of such interviews. The League Council ruled in- 1926 that’ individual petitioners should not he. heard before the commission, though it has not made a ruling concerning the individual action of members in elucidating particular problems. The commission’s meetings were secret, and the report- will not be published until after the meeting of the Council in September. Mr. Nelson, if be does not obtain satisfaction now, will seek means of again raising the issue in September. *