SAMOAN INQUIRY .
(Special to Press Assn, by Radio.)
APIA, Oct. 4. Tusila, who bad been imprisoned for four months for failure to obey an order to return to bis home village, gave evidence before the Royal Commission. He said because he was a member of the Mau, his Failpule bad tried to dissuade him from participation therein, but without success. Witness declared the Mau stood for pence and friendliness, not trouble to the people of Samoa. Seipper (counsel for Citizens’ Committee and Natives): “But that is not all they talked about.” Chief Justice Skerretf: “It is all that they say they talked about. Rather a curious subject for the sole topic of conversation. Witness persisted that this was true. Though he had complaints against the Faipules’ and chiefs as leaders, he had always told Samoans to keep the peace. He was against the medical tax and individualisation of land. He said the Faipule should be elected by the people as in olden times.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1927, Page 2
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