SAMOAN CONTROL

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10277, 12 May 1919, Page 5

S AMOAN CONTROL

GERMANY TO RENOUNCE RIGHTS POWERS VESTED IN NEW ZEALAND. By Telegraph-Presf Assnol-tioii— Copyrifhi Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 9.

Official: The mandate for New Zealand's control of Samoa follows: — Germany renounces all her rights and title over the islands constituting German Samoa, and the Allied and associated Powers entrust the government of the islands to His Britannic Majesty, to be exercised by tho Now Zealand Government, who have full legislative, administrative, and judicial power over *he islands as an integral part of the territory of New Zealand, and may ap■iy New Zealand laws thereto, subject to such . locai modifications as circumstances may require. His Britannic .ti/ajesty, for the New Zealand Government, accepts the mandate upoa the tooting that the trust is imposed and accepted for tho well-being and development of the peoples of the islands, and ••o that end undertakes that slave trade and forced labour shall be prohibited. Traffic in arias and ammuntion is to be controlled in accordance with any general convention which may be entered into by the high contracting parties in this behalf. The sale ot spirituous liquors to natives shall be prohibited, and military training of the natives, otherwise than for the purposes of internal police and local defence of the islands, shall be prohibited. Furthermore, no. military or naval bases shall be estaolisned, and no fortifications shall be erected in the islands either by the Government of New Zealand or by any Power or person. The value of property in the islands be.igmg to tb» German Government shall bo assesseu ana sivu.i be recorded m the inter-Allied Separation Fund, and regarded as allocated to the share of the Government of New Zealand's expenses of administration of the islands. If the revenues obtained from local sources are insufficient, expenses will be defrayed by tho Government of Now Zealand. If, at any time, the native, inhabitant* of the islands express a desire to be united with New Zealand, and if the Council of the League of Nations consider this desire to' be conscious and well-founded, and calculated to promote the natives' interests, tho [Allied and associated Powers agree iihat effect shall be given to it by the Council oi' the League, and the islands shall, i therefrom, be incorporated in New Zealand for all purposes, and the a'dministration under this Convention shall be I regarded as at an end; provided that I all undertakings Article 11J.,-1 including the prohibition against the; establishment of military or' naval bases, I or fortifications, shall be maintained, and shall continue to operate in the | islands after such incorporation. The inhabitants of the islands shall be entitled to British diplomatic protection when in foreign countries. The ] Government of Now Zealand will make '< an annual report containing full information in regard to the island, and the measures taken to fulfil the trust and the extent of the. well-being of the.ia•tives. ' ' .. '";..'