A WISE MEASURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16492, 9 November 1927, Page 7

A WISE MEASURE

THE SAMOAN COMMISSION LONDON TIMES’ COMMENT (The Times.) LONDON, Nov. 8. The Times, in a leader, says: ‘.‘There is no question as to the wisdom or inevitability of the Mandates Commission ’« decision to await the Samoan Commission’s report before arriving at a judgment on the present troubles. Mr. Coates took the right course in appointing the commission, whose members arc universally approved. The only substantial criticism is that, the commission was not appointed earlier,” The Times adds: “It, is important for all Mandatory Powers to remember how valuable the Mandates Commission is becoming as the repository of colonial experience and the living link between Governments who need to profit by each other’s lesson. The value of a document like the forth-' coming Samoan report will not bci limited to the mandate with which it is concerned. The Mandates Commission does not enjoy wide powers of action, but it is dependent for its usefulness upon the goodwill of the mandatories to its recent notification. The Mandates Commission expressed a wish for bound copies of the Samoan mandatory laws, brought up-to-date. The administration replied that it had none to spare. It seems clearly worth while that the administration should print and even bind a few extra sheets to enable the commission’s more competently to'fulfil its duties.”