SAMOAN NATIVES.
THE NATIONALITY QUESTION. By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright Australian ami N.Z. Cable A.-soeir’.tion. ;/iXn<»>:. April it,' Sir .lames Allen. High Commissioner! for Now Zealand will attend a nicotine I ot the Council ot' the League of Nationsl it Geneva on April 111, in reference to i the nationality of th** natives in the German mandated territory. Sir .James ' Vilen has expressed the opinion that r he Samoan natives cannot bo con sidored natives of the country holding he mandate. Tt will probably be agreed to call them Samoans under British protection. He preferred New Zealand protection, as it discouraged the natives and others from thinking ■hat they ion Id appeal through other •bannals than New Zealand. Germans in Samoa could not be naturalised under the New Zealand law. He igreed with Mr Justice Salmond s suggestion that* if the Germans were satisfactory citizens the law might be amended to enable Germans to be
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17017, 16 April 1923, Page 4
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154SAMOAN NATIVES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17017, 16 April 1923, Page 4
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