FIFTY YEARS AGO
SAMOAN SETTLEMENT Following the trend of English colonial policy 50 years ago, the Government had finally acquiesced in the granting of autonomy to the chiefs in Samoa. The following is an extract from the New Zealand Herald of March 8, ISS9: "Replying to Mr. Howard Vincent, member for Sheffield Central, in the House of Commons, Sir James Fergusson, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that the Government of Great Britain 'had been requested by the Samoan chiefs to annex Samoa. They had been compelled to refuse the request. They had, however, effected an arrangement under which the autonomy of the islands was secured. That had been considered the most satisfactory manner of settlement."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23290, 8 March 1939, Page 10
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