SAMOAN DISCONTENT
MAU MEMBERS BANISHED NATIVES TAKE ACTION (By Radio—Special to Press Assn.). APIA, April 12. Yesterday, in Lamtogo village, near Apia, three members of the community who had giveii umbrage to others by joining the Mau, had their taro patches rooted up and.were driven from the village in accordance "with "fao'' —a Samoan custom of banishment. The occurrence w r as magnified by alarmist reports, but the European police who wont but found the village peaceful and wholly pro-Administra-tion as previously, though' asserting that the white man had too many, laws and insufficient-action.'- -•■■'*" :« •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 14 April 1928, Page 5
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94SAMOAN DISCONTENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 14 April 1928, Page 5
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