SAMOAN AFFAIRS.
LAW MUST BE OBEYED. STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Special to the Star.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 6. •‘Wo will not lie coerced into negotiation with a b-ody of Samoans who defy the law,” declared the Prime Minister when the House to-day proceeded to discuss the annual report of the Samoan administration. ~ “We wish,” he said, “to be sympathetic, but while the Samoans maintain their present attitude, our hands are l tied. If they wish to obtain an adjustment of the methods of the administration, ( and redress of possible grievances, they should know that the first essential is to abandon their defiance of the law. I am sure no political party in New Zealand fails to recognise the necessary for upholding the- law and the impossibility of giving way to an agitation based on defiance of law and order.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 September 1929, Page 9
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139SAMOAN AFFAIRS. Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 September 1929, Page 9
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