SAMOAN INQUIRY
DOMINION’S ADMINISTRATION. BENEFICIAL RESULTS. TIME OF PROSPERITY. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received October 17, 8.5 a.m. APIA, Oct. 15. Toelupe and Tuaiagaloa, chiefs and faipules, testified before the Royal Commission that under New Zealand’s administration Samoa was more prosperous than under the former control. New Zealand’s administration was for the good of Samoa. The evidence established that Samoan custom gave absolutely no voice to the Samoan rank and file in political matters. Several other faipules testified similarly regarding the beneficial effects of New Zealand’s control.
Toelupe stated that thero was no unrest in Samoa until October last, when it was caused by the Mau. Banishments were customary in old Samoa for comparatively trivial, and also for serious, offences. He considered no Samoan clever enough to be in the white men’s Legislative Council. Samoan wisdom was not whites’ wisdom, which was the reason that all the Samoan efforts to organise and manage trading companies invariably failed. The present fono system was the only practicable way for the present generation in Samoa. —Special to Press Association by radio.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 273, 17 October 1927, Page 7
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177SAMOAN INQUIRY Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 273, 17 October 1927, Page 7
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