SAMOAN MANDATE COMMISSION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3840, 4 September 1928, Page 2

SAMOAN MANDATE COMMISSION.

A FAVOURABLE REPORT. Geneva, September 1. The League of Nations’ Council has received the report of the Mandates Commission upon West Samoa. The Dutch delegate, Mr. van Blokeland, in reporting on the matter, said the Commission had examined all documents, the most important of which was the report of the New Zealand Government’s Royal Commission. New Zealand, in thus laying complete documentation before the Council and also allowing it to hear Sir George Richardson, showed the fullest comprehension of the Mandates Commission’s duties and its own responsibilities. Mr. van Blokeland added that the Commission had considered a suggestion that a certain natural unrest would continue until the League had taken action. It should be clearly understood that the mandatory alone*was responsible for maintaining law and order in conformity with the mandate. He said: “In my opinion the Mandates Commission’s conclusions ore so important that they should be given the widest publicity in New Zeajand and Samoa.” The Council adopted the Man- , dates Commission’s observations and instructed the Secretary-Gen-eral to forward them to the New Zealand Government. As Sir James Parr had not arrived, owing to rail delay, Lord Cushendun. said he believed Sir James would have expressed satisfaction with the Commission’s report and thanked Mr. van Blokeland for his remarks. He had no doubt the New Zealand Government would give the report the widest publicity.