CONTROL OF SAMOA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17179, 5 June 1919, Page 10

CONTROL OF SAMOA.

NEW ZEALAND'S STEWARDSHIP ;: A REPLY TO CRITICISM. ■"-. [from oim OWN CORRT.SI'OXDEXT.] LONDON. April 11. An attack- on the New Zealand adminis- - tratior of .Samoa was made by Captain j Annandale at the meeting of the Hoval i Colonist _ Institute, at which Mr. G. H. ; SchcJefield read a paper on '' Problems of '. Reconstruction in the Pacific." Captain Annandale stated that he had lived in the group for many years, under the German regime. The New Zealand administration, he said, had interfered with the labour arrangements of the planters in such a way - as to impair seriously their prosperity, and he earnestly hoped that the British Government, and not the New Zealand .Government, would be given control of the islands. Sir Gilbert Parker mado short work of this complaint. It was, he said, a very good principle that people who could ' manage their own country were the best i people to be entrusted with the manage l ment of dependences. He thought New | Zealand. and Austra'ia should manage the j late German colonies adjacent to them, | and he hoped that the British Empire j would never consent to make a report of | its stewardship to the League of Nations i or any other authority. | Sir William ,MacGr?gor, who is the] .greatest living authority on the Pacific j .-was in the chair. Ee expressed himself I ."unequivocally in favour of New Zealand ' and Australia being the stewards of the Pacific possessions under discussion. He had always regarded Papua as a depen- . 'dency.'of Australia, and as for New Zea- i land, it could not be denied that -she had g taught the natives of Polynesia to love {! and respect her. That was'proved by the I manner in which they had come forward • 3 in the war. * ! I <i