WESTERN SAMOA.
NEW ZEALAND CRITICISED. A DESIRE FOR SEPARATION. CONFUSION IN THE ISLAND. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Sept. 16, 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY. Sept. 16. Mr R. W. Robson, editor of the Paciflo Islands Monthly, in an address to the Polynesian Club, criticised the administration of Western Samoa by the New Zealand Government. He said that while in Samoa recently he heard much talk among nonofflcial Europeans and among halfcastes of a desire to be separated from New Zealand and attached to the administration of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (the British Colonial Office), whose headquarters were at Suva.
Mr Robson added that the goodwill mission that was sent to Western Samoa recently by the New Zealand Government had made the confusion in the island worse. The mission had promised many concessions and reforms, but there would be trouble when the natives realised that the gesture would not mean self-govern-ment. Nothing had been done to provide for the future of the 3500 halfcastes. whose hatred for New Zealand was responsible for much of the trouble.
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Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19992, 16 September 1936, Page 7
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