ISLAND CONTROL
COUNCIL APPROVES CHANGE (Per Press Association.) . WELLINGTON, this day. In moving in the Legislative Council yesterday the second reading of the Cook Island Amendment (Bill, Sir James Parr said the bill provided for the transfer of the administration of Niue Island from the Minister in charge of Cook Islands to the Minister of External Affairs. 'I he Hon. R. McCallum said he had always been opposed to the control of Samoa by New Zealand. lie asked for an assurance that the icharige of control of Niue would not create further trouble in Samoa. Sir James Parr said the bill did not place Niue under the Samoan Administrator, but the island would be in the same position as it was before. » Tlie was put through the remaining stages and passed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 6
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131ISLAND CONTROL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 6
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