N.Z. & SAMOA
QUESTION OF ADMINISTRATION.
(United Press Association— By. Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON, December 9.
In the House of Lords, Lord Ponsonby asked whether the Government, through the League of Nations Mandates Commission, would satisfy itself that the Now Zealand mandate over Samoa, was being administered with n, dim regard for the interests of the Samoans. • Lord Ponsonb.v said that there wag grave apprehension in Samoa that there might be a recurrence of the events of the year 1929. There was, he said, grave discontent with the Mandatory Government. Lord Strathcona, replying Tor the Government, said that tlie Samoa Mandate was entrusted under tlie Versailles Treaty to the New Zealand Government. The British Government had no right, nor any desireto interfere. He said that when the petition was received in 1931 alleging certain difficulties, the British Government had returned it. He pointed out that it was solely a matter for New Zealand. Any discussion on the subject by the British Parliament, therefore, was undesirable,
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1932, Page 5
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