PROHIBITION IN SAMOA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 36, 6 November 1919, Page 6

PROHIBITION IN SAMOA

MILITARY ENACTMENT KIISKNTED.

Tliu Now Zealand T'rpss Association has received the following message by wireloss from Apia (Samoa), signed'"CVoudace, chairman" :— "A largo and representative public meeting of British, Allied, and neutral citizens has unanimously nassod the following resolutions, which" have been handed to Hie Administrator: "I. That this meeting wishes emphatically to protest against the highhanded action of the authorities in establishing prohibition in this territory by military proclamation, We claim that if prohibition is necessary here, were, the residents, are the rigid: ones to decide the. question and should have been consulted, whereas to use the powerful machinery of militarism—which was impartially obeyed during the war, but is now twelve monf's after the war lias censed, intolerable—has raised intense indignation ami distrust anions us, and we nrgonl'y insist that such a despotic and utterly uncalled-for mea-Sliv-i lie withdrawn immediately. "2. Thai a pelil'MMi lie signed and presented In lite Administrator with n request thai he forward il to the proner authorities in New Zealand. "8. That a ciiny of the nelitinn lie forwarded In \<\\c Colonial Office ihronirli Ihe TTi<ri* Commissioner of Ihe 'Western Pacific." The message adds that the petition, which is >l>oiii!r eagerly signed, will bo forwarded bv mail.