GERMAN LAW IN SAMOA
By Telegraph.—Press 1 Association. T ,' „ Auckland,, April 18. Ine Supreme, Court, was asked to make absolute a d&cree. nisi'for a.imt", t bea . s coitus to the gaoler at : Auckland to- procure tlio discharge' of, Albert Joseph Arlow, convicted at fsamoa and sentenced under tho German law_while Samoa was in the, occu- : patiori of - the British. The contention was that- the Court at Samoa was improperly constituted. Mr. Justice Stringer said he supposed' that ! until peace was proclaimed, or until the annexation of Samoa was proclaimed, German law was the-only, lair that could, be recognised in, Samoa.' He reserved his decision. ' -
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3057, 19 April 1917, Page 5
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104GERMAN LAW IN SAMOA Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3057, 19 April 1917, Page 5
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