IN SAMOA
CENSORSHIP ON PRESS WIRES. (By Telegraph—Per Tress Association.) WESTPORT, January 5. In a radiogram to Mr H. E. Holland Leader of the Labour Party, delivered on Saturday evening, Mr A. Hall Skelton, barrister, of Auckland, says that he was an eye-witness of the affair at Apia last Saturday. Mr Hall Skelton asserts that the official reports sent out from Samoa are incorrect. Ho further declares that grave charges are pending, and adds that the Administrator, Colonel Allen, is withholding from transmission press messages containing a true account of what happened. i Mr Holland yesterday telegraphed to Sir Joseph Ward urging that the censorship he lifted, in order that full information from all sources shall be available to the public in New Zealand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1930, Page 3
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124IN SAMOA Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1930, Page 3
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