TROUBLE NEAR APIA
RIVAL NATIVE FACTIONS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association)
AiT'IA, 12th April
Yesterday, in I.eingo, a village nearApia, three members of the community who had given umbrage to others by joining the Man. had their lam patches rooted up and were driven from I lie village in accordance with a Samoan custom of banishment. The occurrence was magnified by alarmist reports, but the European police who went out found the village peaceful and wholly pro-Ad-ministration as previously, though asserting that the whit.: man had too niiiiiv laws and insulhcient action.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 7
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