A PRINCE NO LONGER.
SAMOAN WHO WAS BANISHED.
OBJECTS TO SUBDIVISION OF ■ LAND. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) (Special to Press Association). (Bv Radio). APIA, Oct. 3rd. Moananu Faafoi told the Commission that Malietoa, witness’s father, was a king, but witness was disentitled and banished for discussing the pedigrees of chiefs and referring contemptuously to 1 speech made by another chief. "Witness said that such chiefs had complained against him, but he was of higher rank than they. He was against the medical tax and against the Administration’s proposed subdivision of land, which might cause trouble to his family and result in witness having to work for someone else. The authority given to the Faipules by the Administrator made (them overbearing, though they were only Government servants, representing nobody.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 October 1927, Page 5
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129A PRINCE NO LONGER. Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 October 1927, Page 5
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