SAMOAN AFFAIRS
ADDRESS BY MR H. E. HOLLAND. PEACEFUL POLICY ADVOCATED. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) GREYMOUTH, This Day. Last evening, Mr H. E, Holland, Leader of the Labour Party, addressed a largely-attended meeting at the .Miners’ Hall, Runanga, when he made a comprehensive review of iSamoan history detailing the events leading up to'the affair of December 28.
i' He advocated the abandonment of .coercive methods and. the initiation of a. policy of 'conciliation that would have the fullcs'fmeasure'of' justice for .its (basis. To this end they should extend to the Samoans an effective share in the country’s government. It was regrettable, he said, that the. measure of elective representation promised the natives by Sir James Parr, on behalf of the Reform Government, had never been conceded.
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Northern Advocate, 1 February 1930, Page 8
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