Samoan Deportees Arrive in Auckland

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 9

Samoan Deportees Arrive in Auckland

NO STATEMENT MADE WILL SEE LEGAL ADVISOR r and Mr. A. ..V .i ’ t 'T° of th « m «n who wore . d * port,d Samoa after the holding of a Royal Comrnis.'°n, arrived in Auckland yesterday afternoon by the Tofua. .»3 hey ere not Prepared to make any until Urey had seen their legal advisor. h„^ r K„ NeU °?. denied that his business ‘at it only part of the propaganda which is being done,” he “ Mr Nelson and Mr. Smyth will th^Tof, 1 .. Auckland until the sailing of Wellington. afteF whlch they will go to Mr. Smyth said that he will nroto Suva. Fiji, where he business temporarily. Mr. Nelson will sail for Europe shortly. He hfm ll^ 4 4 th^fi e of his daughters with remain tere They WiU Probably Samoa. eaJand later - s be is still in _ ®f, r ’ Smyth said that it was true that Samoa had been boyThla a PP ,le d not only to New g ° odB ’ but to all commodities except sugar, kerosene, soap and s?tU(S heS ’ Whlch were considered P neeesThe natives had declared the boycott when the Tofua sailed carrying Mr Nelson and Mr. Smyth to New Zealand. "There is practically little trade bexng done in Samoa at present!” he remarked. Many of the natives had not paid last year’s taxes, he said, and they were refusing to pay fines. A certain amount of copra was being produced. NOTHING TO SAY This morning Mr. O. F. Nelson was busily engaged attending to business at his Auckland office. He had no comment to make on the Prime Minister’s statement, which was issued, on the day Mr. Nelson and Mr. A. G. Smyth arrived in Auckland. While in New Zealand Mr. Nelson Is not subject to any ban. When he finished his official business he will go to Wellington to consult his solicitor.