GENERAL RICHARDSON.
DEPARTURE FROM APIA. MIXED DEMONSTRATIONS. APIA, April 8. Over 2000 Samoans gathered at Mulinuu to-day to give an enthusiastic farewell to the retiring Administrator, General Sir George Richardson. The ceremonies consisted of dances, singing and speech-making. Several gaily decorated fautasi, each manned by 40 rowers, escorted the departing Administrator to the steamer. In Apia since Thursday some 2000 illegal Mau police, wearing purple uniforms and many of them carrying large sticks, have been demonstrating in an uncompromising manner. To-day unsympathetic Samoans forcibly removed at least two young men from the procession of loyal natives en route to the send-off to General Richardson. Yesterday an illegal meeting of the Mail police at Apia was addressed by Faumaina, a chief who was recently removed from his nativa village by order of the Administrator, because of his activity in Mau matters. Undoubtedly the policy of breaking ordinances but not bones, is still being pursued by the Mau.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19917, 10 April 1928, Page 9
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