MANDATES COMMISSION.
-* PROHIBITION IN SAMOA. geneva, August 9. A passage iu the report of the Mandates Commission says the commissioners note with satisfaction that New Zealand has expressly forbidden alcohol in Western Samoa. The commission is deeply impressed by Sir James Allen’s statement that experience has shown that the only method for suppressing liquor consumption among natives was to compel all nationals in the territory to set an example of total abstinence. The commission drew attention to the significant fact that while Prohibition was enforced in New Guinea and South-West Africa, in islands placed, under the Japanese exemptions. The commission also condemned the recruiting of male Chinese labour for Nauru as calculated to raise serious problems.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18556, 11 August 1922, Page 9
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116MANDATES COMMISSION. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18556, 11 August 1922, Page 9
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