It is bad enough in Samoa to have plantations ruined, and tons of copra allowed to rot; worse still to cease to care about health, but to see a promising people, to whom lawlessness has been a perpetual bane, slip back into, anarchy after a valiant attempt to .attain an orderly life, is more than disappointing. It is provocative of severest condemnation of those who, knowing too well how to play ,on the susceptibilities of this people, have not scrupled to employ their knowledge For base ends. It is they, not the perverted Samoans, who nfust carry tne blame—they and some others in this country who, for party-political purposes of their own, which have nothing to do with Samoa, have lent their aid to the intriguers, --“New Zealand Herald.*'
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1928, Page 3
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