SAMOAN AFFAIRS
COMMISSION’S SITTINGS ADDRESSES BY COUNSEL. OUTLINE OF EVIDENCE TO BE GIVEN. (Special to Press Association. By Radio.) ( (Received 27, 12.30 p.m.) Apia, Sept. 26. Mr. Baxter, counsel for the Citizens’ Committee, addressed the Commission, outlining the matters to be dealt with by him. He said lie would deal with the matters fairly and fully and show the Commission that the Mau movement was entirely law-abiding and constitutional. He next dealt with matters preceding the holding of European meetings in Apia, in which the Samoan natives took part, and step by step touched upon the affairs which led up to the banishment of certain natives. Mr Baxter then traced the various events which culminated in the acute political situation in Samoa and subsequent events in the New Zealand Parliament and elsewhere.
Questions by Sir C. P. Skerrett and Judge McCormack elicited the statement that the citizens wished the Minister to investigate complaints along the beach. Their purpose was not to put forward any general scheme for reform of the administration of these islands.
Mr. Slipper,’also a counsel for the citizens and natives, followed, outlining the evidence to be given as to prohibition, cancellation of trading licenses, and the banishment of natives.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 27 September 1927, Page 5
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