SAMOAN AFFAIRS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 639, 16 April 1929, Page 16

SAMOAN AFFAIRS

: —♦— : MR. ALLEN WILL CONFER WITH CABINET A HURRIED VISIT • i The Administrator of the mandated j territory of 'Western Samoa, Mr. S. S. ! Allen, arrived yesterday afternoon by ; the Tofua and left later for Welling:- : ton, where he will hold a hurried con- ; ference with the Prime Minister, the | Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward. I He may also meet Cabinet before j returning to Samoa by the Tofua on i Saturday. . *T am not able to make any comment,” the Administrator remarked | with a smile. In answer to several questions he ! admitted that the faipules and the i village magistrates were no longer functioning, as was stated in The Sun ! on Saturday, but he confessed that it 1 was news to him to hear that the Stale I schools had been closed. If they were | such action had taken place after he ; had sailed, but he did not think it i was possible. Tho State water service had been 1 cut off from the villages which had , refused to pay taxes. I Mr. Allen did not reply to a ques-

tion asking how drastically the economy axe would be wielded in Samoa. He confessed that he did not know why he had been summoned by the Prime Minister nor what the consultations would be about. The Administrator was met at *Tie boat by Lord Waleran, on behalf of his Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, and Mr. C. A. Berendsen, Secretary to the Department of External Affairs.