DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1927, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) SAMOA INQUIRY. WELLINGTON, Sept. 5. Tho personnel and terms of reference of the Samoan Commission were announced by the Prime Minister this evening. The members of tho Commission will be: Sir Charles Perrin Skerrett. Chief Justice, and Judge Charles Edward MacCormiek, of tho Native Land Court. Tho Commission is to inquire into and report upon the following questions :

(1) Whether, having regard to the duties undertaken by the Government of New Zealand under the mandate, there is just or reasonable enuso for complaint and the objections that have been made 1o tho New Zealand Government, and by the petition to Parliament, concerning' the administration of Western Samoa. (2) Whether the Administrator or the officials of the Administration have in any manner exceeded their duty in the exercise of the authority entrusted to them respectively, or have tailed to exercise their respective func-, tions honestly and justly (3) Whether, having regard to Samoan Native Customs, and to the due maintenance of government and order in tho mandated territory, it would be prudent and safe to wholly repeal and abrogate all the power to require a Samoan to remove for a definite period from one place on the islands to another. It is understood ‘‘that the Commission will proceed to Samoa by the Tofua. leaving Auckland on September ioth. r

STEAMER qOLLTSTON. AUCKLAND, Sept. 5. Tho steamer Tilda, owned by the Gisborne Farmers’ -Meat Cov., which was unloading a cargo of maize and wool at the King’s AVluu-f. was severely damaged through being struck by tho steamer Hilcurhngi shortly after three o’clock this afternoon. Tho Tiroa was badly holed amidships on the port side.