SAMOA SETTLING DOWN
NEW COMMISSIONER DOING WELL. Auckland, August 6. Mr. T. Fraser, a representative of an Auckland firm, who was a passenger by the Tofua, said that the business people in Samoa had informed him that the atmosphere was distinctly clearer. Some told him that many of the natives thought to he disaffected were paying their rates more or less secretly, not wishing to create a breach in the Tanks of the Man. A number of Man police, in uniform, move about, apparently to uphold the prestige of their organisation. The military police, apart from the moral effect of their presence, do not appear to be affecting the life of the commhnity.
; “In a word,” Mr. Fraser concluded, “Samoa is settling down. Mr. Galbraith, Commission of Crown Lands, Dunedin, who was also a passenger by the Tofna, said that the new Commissioner was getting on well. There were large areas of good virgin land in Samoa that could he brought into profit. Mr. C. D. Morris, of Christchurch, said that the natives appeared to he sulking. He was informed that the expedition to Geneva had cost £15,000 and a recent cable had asked for a further £SOOO.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3828, 7 August 1928, Page 3
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