IN SAMOA.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Jan. 26
Replying to .Air Holland, Air Coates points out that certain reasons arc alleged for the dissatisfaction in Samoa, with the New Zealand authorities and asks it they explain the unrest in Vextern Samoa. How is it the .Alan has extended its activities to American Samoa. where those reasons cannot hold good. .Air Coates quotes extensively from the American official organ to show the- Mail is interfering in American territory and refusing to pay taxes. His reply to Captain Graham. the Governor, was that Government would bo administered according to the established laws.
Ml! HOLLAND'S COMMENT. WESTPORT. Jan. 26
Mr Holland states Mr Coates’s latest remarks sent out h.v the Press Association constituted no reply to his questions. Mr Coates offered no explanation why he would not let members of Parliament have the Royal Commission's report and accompanying evidence. and he did not attempt to explain glaring contradictious which he had drawn attention to. If Mr Coates latest assertion was correct, and if the Alan really was responsible for the trouble in Samoa where was his justification for punishing liv deportation without trial Europeans whom he declared guilty of no oll'cnce whatever. Mr Coates and his Government would not he permitted to shelter behind what is happening in Eastern Samoa under American rule. If his statement of the trouble at Tutuila were correct, it might prove one of two things, either the Samoans in Eastern group felt that they also had cause to he dissatisfied with the way in which their islands were being governed, or the psychological influence of unrest in AVestern Samoa had extended to the East. A student of native psychology would expect this latter to happen. In any ease New Zealand had no legislative or administrative responsibility in the matter of Eastern Samoa, hut had a duty to see that its administration in Western, was not weighted with indefensible acts of tyranny.
A CORRECTION. WELLINGTON. Jan. 26
The message re Mr Coates's reply is a mistake and does not emanate Irom tno Minister.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1928, Page 3
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