SAMOA.
SIGNS OF TROUBLE. (From Our Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 17. .The paragraph going the rounds of the newspapers purporting to be an extract from a letter written by a resident at Apia to a friend in Dunedin and drawing a rather discouraging picture of the state of affairs in Samoa is being freely discussed in political circles. Members of the Parliamentary Party that toured the Islands just after the general election for the purpose of acquainting themselves with the needs of the Dominion's Pacific "dependency," while resenting the suggestion that the Minister of External Affairs and the Under-Secretary of tbe Department did not do all that was possible to" promote good relations between New Zealand and Samoa, express themselves as quite prepared for a strong agitation on the part of the Samoan people for a change "in the administration of their'domestic affairs. Even a year ago they were complaining that under the ne,w arrangement they were enjoying so small a share of selfgovernment that the .beneficence of British rule was not always apparent. The Hon. E. F. Lee himself has talked only generalities in regard to his visit, but, rather from what he has bit unsaid than from what lie has said, itis siispected he is not altogether satisfied wiih the position.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14741, 22 August 1921, Page 8
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212SAMOA. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14741, 22 August 1921, Page 8
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