RIOT IN APIA
MESSAGE FROM MR HALLSKELTON. GRAVE CHARGES PENDING. • (Peb United Press Association,) WESTPORT, January 5. In a radiogram to Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Labour Party, delivered on Saturday evening, Mr A. Hall Skelton, barrister, of Auckland, says he was an eye-witness of the affair at Apia last Saturday, and he asserts that the official reports sonf out from Samoa are incorrect. He further declares that grave charges are pe'nding, and adds that the Administrator is withholding from transmission a press message containing a true account of what happened. Mr Hollali! yesterday telegraphed to Sir Joseph Ward urging that the censorship be lifted in order that full, information, from all sources might be available to the public in New Zealand. . .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 7
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124RIOT IN APIA Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 7
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