DOMINION AND SAMOA.
UNFAIRNESS OF ATTACKS.
PROHIBITION RESENTMENT. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Sept. 7. The Hon. W. H. Triggs, in a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald commenting on its Bpeci.il commissioner's article on Samoa, savs that he has not ihe least hesitation in saying that the chief cause of the agitation against the New Zealand administration is the resentment of white residents on account of the prohibition of intoxicants. He adds that the Government of New Zealand is actuated by the highest motives in its action. If it allowed resentment to influence its actions it would be false to its ideals of carrying out the government of Samoa in the best interests of the natives, as the mandate enjoins it to do.
The special commissioner, in a second article referring to the attacks on the administration, says:—"An impartial observer cannot come to any other conclusion than that the diatribes which have been so widely published to the injury of New Zealand's reputation have been both extravagant and unfair. The administration is not nearly so bad as has been painted, though it is not by any means perfect."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17881, 8 September 1921, Page 5
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