POSITION IN SAMOA.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17133, 21 June 1927, Page 8

POSITION IN SAMOA.

MR. HOLLAND’S CHARGES. “ALTOGETHER UNSATISFACTORY.” GREYMOUTH, Monday. The position in Samoa and the statement of the Hon. W. Nosworthy were referred to. by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr 11. E. Holland, this evening. Mr Holland said the Samoan position was altogether unsatisfactory, and would have t.o be seriously discussed by Parliament. It seemed to him that in the administration New Zealand was copying some of the worst features of the Germans’ pre-war control. Parliamentary representation of both the Samoans and the whites was rendered farcical by reason of the fact that in the former case the faipules were appointed by the Administration and in the latter case the electoral qualification was on a property and income basis. Mr Nosworthy had omitted to mention that leading members of the deputation referred to by himself as agitators were members of the Legislative Council, elected by the white population with substantial majorities over the Government candidates, notwithstanding that “ all 1 tiie dice were loaded ” in favour of the latter. Mr Nelson was the senior Legislative Councillor, and so far as he (Mr Holland) knew was borfl in Samoa.

The making of an Order-in-Council empowering the Administrator to order a native-born citizen or a naturalised subject to leave Samoa because he persisted in opposing the Government’s policy there was an outrage which could not be permitted to go unchallenged.