SAMOAN SETTLERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 156, 27 March 1920, Page 7

SAMOAN SETTLERS

IOTUMED. RWDTBRS IN THE > : > MELD. Mention was miiJo at the meeting of tho.AViu- Jleliel' .Association's executive committee yesterday afternoon of ;thc case of n number of soldiers -,vlio desired to take rip land for settlement in Samoa . Mr. E. .T. F. Aid rich stated that eom< inquiry had been made into.the niattci by the Returned 'Soldiers' Association ffho had.found that our Lands for Set tlcnicut Act? did .not apply in Samoa as K«w Zealand only held a mandate over the country for the League of NaMr'. .Tames M'lntosh mentioned that In had met a man who had been working f plantation in Samoa, and who had simp ly abandoned tho place, and the work o j ; eai's, owing to labour being unobtain able. It was apparently impossible ti work tho Samoan plantations without ii) dentured labour. It was stated by Mr. Aldrioh that thor was the other side to the story—the; mei who had been t.liero on garrison duty am knew tho conditions, and who wished t •go back. It. was'thought by tho chairman (All 1,. 0. 11. Tripp) that if it werepossibl for such men to make good from a n;i lional'point of vi'w, it might be wis io "help tliem lo do so. In view of the return of tho Tarlii mentary .party, from. Samoa, it was_ di i:i<led to approach the I'riiuo Jlinistc on the .subject as, toon a-s he was moi fully posted on .the conditions existing i Samoa.