SAMOA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16817, 12 May 1919, Page 8

SAMOA.

NEW ZEALAND'S MANDATE. RESUME OF OFFICIAL TEXT. (Official). LONDON, May 9. The mandate for New Zealand's control of Samoa is as followsGeimany renounces all rights and title over the islands constituting German Samoa and the associated Powers entrust the government of the islands to his Bntanme Majesty, to be exeicised by the New Zealand Government, which have full legislative admimstiation and judicial power over the islands as an integral pait of the teiritory of New Zealand, and may apply New Zealand laws thereto, subject to such local modifications as circumstances may require. - His Britannic Majesty for the New Zealand Government accepts the mandate upon the; footing- that the trust is imposed and accepted for the wellbeing and development of the peoples of the islands, and to that end undertakes that slave trade and forced labour shall be prohibited, and that traffic in arms and ammunition shall be controlled in accordance with any general Convention which may be entered into J*y the ihrigjhi parties in this behalf. The sale of spirituous liquors to natives shall be prohibited and mandatory. Military training other than for the purposes of internal police and internal defence <,"* the islands shall be prohibited. Furthermore, no military or naval bases shall be established, and no fortifications shall be erected in the islands either by the Government of New Zealand or by any Power or person. The value of property in the islands belonging to the German Government shall be assessed, and shall be recorded in the InterAllied Repatriation Fund and regarded as allocated to the share of the Government of New Zealand. For the expenses of administration of the islands

lli 6 lC v<ames obtained ftbm local somces arc insufficient they vull be defrayed by the Government ot New Zealand Jf at any time 1 the native inhabitants of the islands expiess a desire 10 be united with New Zealand and the" Council of the League of Nations consider this desne to be conscious and wcHfomided, and calculated to promote the natives' interests, and the Allied Associated Powers agree, effect shall be given to it by the Council of the League, and the islands shall theiefrom be incoipoiatcd in New Zealand for all puiposes, and administration under this Convention shall be legaided as at an end, piovidcd that all undeitakings set out in article 3, mclud ng mchihition. against the establishment ot mihtaiv or naval bases oi forthcations, shall be maintained, and shall 'eaaiiu-se" io. operate in the islands after .such incorporation. The inhabitants of ; the islands shall be ; lomatic protection when in foreign countries. The Government o,f New Zealand will make an annual report containing full information with regard to the islands and-measures taken to fulfil the trust and extend the ; of the> and' copies of 'the report will] |ie ;'pjresented to the League l of jNatibns! 'ijfc " : :