SAMOAN TROUBLE.
NATIVE DIES OE WOUNDS.
flic Samoan who was seriously* wounded when resisting- arrest by the police recently lias succumbed to his injuries. lu making this announcement with regret on Tuesday, the Prime Minister (lit. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) said that all the circumstances of Uiis fatality would, of course, be fully inquired into at an inquest.
The Prime Minister added that advice had been received from the Administrator of Western Samoa (001. S. S. Allen) that the verdict of the inquests on the fatalities of December 28 had not yet been delivered, but would probably be available to-day,
Auckland, January 28. "L know nothing of the Samoan lrouble, but 1 do say that the Government must be firm wlith the native race. 1 have eome to this conclusion after a life-time’s residence in the Islands," said the Hon. Henry Marks, C.D.E., Mayor of Sinn, on his arrival by the Niagara. “It is absolutely necessary lei- a government to show authority," -Mr. Alarks declared. “The milder the administration is the more tile natives take it as a sign of weakness. Only the New Zealand Government can decide whether the administration in Samoa has gone too far.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4408, 30 January 1930, Page 2
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197SAMOAN TROUBLE. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4408, 30 January 1930, Page 2
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