“The military mind is not suitable for the government of Samoa,” said Mr F. Milner, headmaster of Waitaki Boys’ High School, speaking at a'meet, ing of the League of Nations Union in Christchurch. “It should be governed by men versed in ethnology, anthropology and the traditions of the British Colonial Office.” He stated that elsewhere British rule hid done its best to preserve local institutions, and this should have been done in Samoa.
Properly organised relief labour can attain an efficiency that it lacks when haphazard methods of allocation to works are used, according to Mr R. Mclntyre, Public Works Department assistant-engineer at Rangiora, who addressed the Canterbury. Engineering Society in Christchurch This had been proved, he said, in the development of the Ashley River control scheme. Mr Mclntyre contrasted the methods used when the work was commenced in 11133 with the piecework system adopted later.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 231, 16 September 1935, Page 9
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