CONTROL OF ISLANDS.
UNION CROUP ADDED.
NEW ZEALAND'S DESTINY. RELIEVING BRITISH EXCHEQUER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The-Government tendered an official welcome yesterday to the nine visiting chiefs from Western Samoa. In the absence of the Prime Minister (Mr. W. F. Massey) through indisposition, Sir Francis Bell presided over a large gathering, and in the course of his remarks in proposing the health of the visitors he announced that the Government of New Zealand had been requested by the British Government to take over control of .the L’nion Islands, near Samoa. “I think,” he said, “we will assume that duty, subject to the approval of the Parliament of the-Do-minion, and in that, as in the case of Samoa and all our dependencies in the Pacific, we will relieve the British Exchequer of the charge of it.
“1 believe it is the destiny of New Zealand to administer all the island groups between Hawaii and New Zealand, apart from those belonging to France,” added the speaker.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1924, Page 7
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