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Observer, Volume XL, Issue 9, 1 November 1919, Page 3

We may remark in passing that, so far as the administration of the day is concerned in Samoa, nothing could be much worse under any system than the treatment, or want of treatment, of the recent influenza epidemic, which levied an appalling toll of mortality on the people, and seriously impaired their respect for the administration to which they have been handed over by the Peace Treaty. Here is food for considerable thought; There is, moreover, the land question, (imperative 5n Samoa as in every country which offers temptations to exploitation. This also is food for considerable thought. When the mandate arrives in proper form it ought to find the Government here fully prepared with knowledge and understanding of all these matters. — Wellington "Times."