MANDATED TERRITORIES

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 11

MANDATED TERRITORIES

WESTERN SAMOA AND NEW GUINEA POLICIES OF THE MANDATORIES. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Geneva, Sept. 23.' Mr. Brennan (Australia), addressihg the Sixth Committee, said that the Australian administration neither countenanced the notion of anexation nor the claim to sovereignty over New Guinea. It desired to remove the last vestige of unfavourable discrimination, consistent with its own immigration laws. He thought it most desirable to state this position clearly, because the observations of individual critics suggested that the situation was not universally appreci-' ated. , ’ < Sir Thomas Wilford said that all fie New Zealand parties were determined faithfully to carry out the Samoan mandate in the interests of the population. He thanked the Mandates Commission for its congratulations on what had been done for the education, health and improved economic conditions of the people of Samoa/He believed that if the League continued to have confidence in New Zealand Samoa would become the brightest jewel among the mandated territories. The difficulties, including the passive resistance of a portion of me inhabitants, should be borne in mind when „• eon-'deiii’g the .commissions reference ;•? the vide difference of the conditions from those in New. Zealand.