SAMOA COMMISSION
(Special to Press Association by Radio
APIA, Oct. 4
Moanau Foafoi told the Commissioner that Malictoa, (witness’ father), was king but witness was disentitled and banished. Discussing the pedigrees of chiefs and referring contemptuously to a speech made by another Chief, witness said such Chiefs had complained against him, hut he wns of higher rank than they. He ■was against the medical tax and against the Administration’s proposed sub-division of land which might cause trouble to his family and result in witness having to work ioi someone else. Authority given to Faipules by the Administrator, made them overbearing, though they "cie only government servants, representing nobody.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1927, Page 3
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108SAMOA COMMISSION Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1927, Page 3
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