OVERTAXED ISLANDERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12654, 24 January 1910, Page 4

OVERTAXED ISLANDERS.

, DISCONTENT. IN SAMOA.' (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day!; Mr A. D. Fairbairn, an American journalist, who arrived by the 'Frisco steamer Tympric, says that "smarting under what they declare to ' be. -unjust and wholly unnecessary taxation,-: the English, American, and, many Germanresidents of German Soamqa. have formed a secret alliance te obtain redre&?. They declare that Governor Sblf and Council have exercised most .. arbitrary power, and have' inflicted burd&tla .on '^ white men that have become, , I &nbe<'ir : i able. Everything is taxed' fron^a-^rfib-bing brush to a buggy and., pairT>rThe English and Aniferican resutwits, prOr ducing nearly all the material V«alth of the islands, have absolutely' no ., says / m the Governmente>v It/is true two. Ehgr lishmen have seiAs .iti the Ccmricil which "assists" Governor : ;Bolf m the administration of affairs, but their position is a mere empty' nonoiy as they do? none of the governing. Despah'ing of obtaining any cbnsideratioir at the hands of : the local^Government, the: overburdened taxpayers are serioilsly conteftiplilting sending a delegation to "Berlin, Where relief would be sought at the hands: of the German Chancellor.- Questidned regarding the feeling of the natives, Mr.>Fdfrbairn said : "The natives are gruinbling oyer^t'fte-f ; ei^ssive exactibrig of/ tttffi;' t <j6vernment, > anq*?Vnany of them, -declared iu-^ 'my^ presence that . they w ; ould. welcohie the return of ' Great Brita iti to the vislands. ■.'■"'*"•''