SAMOAN UNREST
“OBSCURE TO. EUROPEAN EYES.’? COMMENT BY SUNDAY OBSERVER. LONDON, March.. 25. The Sunday Observer says: “ General Richardson leaves behind him in. Samoa a situation that is . very obscure to European eyes. The transfer of the Ad ministratorship provides Mr Coates with a " opportunity to make a full statement of the facts and policy. It is undesirable that a misunderstanding should be left uncorrected until the Mandates Commission sits in June.—A. and N.Z: Cable. EXCHANGE OF. ADMINISTRATORS. THE SAILING .ARRANGEMENTS. WELLINGTON, March 28. It i s expected that the retiring Administrator of Western Samoa (Sir Georg e Richardson), who is returning to New Zealand to confer with the Government before proceeding to Geneva to act as the ot th e Dominion’s representatives before the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, will leave Samoa by the lofua bn April 6, arriving at Auckland on or about April 16. The new Administrator of the mandated territory (Mr S. S. Allen) will leave A ’ieki a nd for Samoa on the return trip of the Tofua, which is scheduled to sail on April 21 He will be accompanied by his wife and six-year-old son. Eariv next week Mr Allen will com e to Wellington to confer with the Prime Minister on matters concerning his new office.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 30
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216SAMOAN UNREST Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 30
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