AFFAIRS IN SAMOA.
the public service. INVESTIGATION BY OFFICIALS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] APIA. Nov. 17. Three officials from New Zealand, the Secretary for External Affairs, the Public Service Commissioner and the Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, -have arrived in Samoa to investigate matters connected with the public service generally with a view, it is said, to economising. There is much speculation n;s to what will happen, and Dame Rumour has nominated almost every white official in the service as being likely to receive a "trip outside the reef." The Administrator, Mr. S. S. Allen, held his first Legislative Council meeting on November 12, when a number of ordinances were put through. One of these deals with the storage and control of petrol and another makes it optional for the native tax to be paid in cash or copra, and treats failure to pay the tax as an offence punishable by fine or imprisonment. None of the matters is of a contentious character and the bills passed almost without comment. Tlio unofficial members J were Messrs. A. Williams and Johnston, I who joined the Council after Mr. Nelson left. Mr. Westbrook, an ox-councillor, was an interested spectator of the proceed* -insl-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 9
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