SAMOA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 9

SAMOA.

MR HOLLAND’S CRITICISM. (Pbb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 26. Replying to Mr Holland, Mr Coates points out that certain reasons are alleged for dissatisfaction in Samoa with the New Zealand authorities, and asks, if explain the unrest in Western Samoa, how it is that the Man has extended its activities to American Samoa, where these reasons cannot hold good. Mr Coates quotes extensively from the American official organ to show that the Man is interfering in the American territory and refusing to pay taxes. The reply of Captain Graham, the Governor, was that government would be administered according to the lished laws. CONDITIONS NOT EXPLAINED. (Peb Tni-i-d Press association.! W 'j TPORT, January 26. Mr H. E. iolland said Mr Coates's latest remarks sent out by the Press Association constituted no reply to his questions. Mr Coates offered no explanation why he would not let the members of Parliament have the Royal Commission’s report and the accompanying evidence; and he did not attempt to explain the glaring contradictions which he (Mr Holland) had drawn attention to. If Mr Coates’s latest assertion was correct, apd if the Man was really responsible fo • the trouble in Samoa, where was his justification for punishing by deportation without trial Europeans who, he declared, were guilty of no offence whatever. Mr Coates and his Government would not be permitted to shelter behind what was happening in Eastern Samoa under American rule. If his statement of trouble at Tutuila was correct it might prove one of two things: either that the Samoans in the Eastern group felt that they also had cause to be dissatisfied with the way in which their islands were being governed, or the psychological influence of the unrest in Western Samoa had extended East. A student of native psychology would expect this latter to happen. In any case, New Zealand had no legislative or administrative responsibility in the matter of Eastern Samoa, but had a duty to see that its administration of Western Samoa was not weighted down with indefensible acts of tyranny. NO REPLY BY MR COATES. SOMEONE HAS BLUNDERED. (Peb United Press Association.! WELLINGTON, January 26. The message re Mr Coates’s reply is a mistake. It does not emanate from the Prime Minister.