SITUATION IN SAMOA

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1930, Page 7

SITUATION IN SAMOA

MAU NO LONGER ACTIVE. In reply to the Rev. Clyde Carr (Timaru), whoi had asked for details present position in Western Samoa, the Prime Minister replied in the HJouse of Representatives that the military police, us such, had been disbnnded in April, 1929, and replaced by the Samoa. Constabulary. There were no concentrations of the Mau, and no other signs of Mau activity. Passive resistance was rapidly diminishing. “We are advised by the Administrator that for all practical purposes there is at present no Man movement in the territory, and I trust that his encouraging situation will be allowed to develop, “Since this Government took office there have been no ‘banishments,’ and no person has been imprisoned except by due process of law, after a fair trial, with the right of representation by counsel, No Samoan has been subject to a ‘banishment’ order during the past two years, and no such order has been made since 1927. The following Samoans are, . however, still serving sentences o.f imprisonment imposed by the High Court in respect of the offences indicated: Offences against the maintenance of authority in the' Native Affairs Ordinance, 5; offences against the Samoa seditious organisations regulations, 7. “No Samoan woman has ever been subject to a ‘banishment’ order, and no Samoan woman is in prison,”