WORK IN SAMOA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 343, 3 October 1932, Page 5

WORK IN SAMOA

(Press. Assn.-

SIR T. WILFORD'S SPEECH

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

London, Oct. 2. Rec. Oct. .2, 9.0 p.m. At Geneva, Sir Thomas Wilford, paid a tribute to the Mandates' Commission work. He said the best testimony to the peacefulness of Samoa was the fact that his weekly telegram from the Government had not mentioned Samoa since the Mandate Commission last met in November. He praised the assistance ^n producing the paciflc state in Western Samoa, where New Zealand's ambition was to enable Samoans and New Zealanders to live in amity. The Australian Press special representative says that Sir Thomas Wilford's mention of the New Zealand administration of the Samoan mandate arose from an inference in the speech of the Norwegian, M. Carl Andbord that further disturbances had occurred there recently. M. Andbord afterward expressed appreciation of Sir Thomas's explanation. Mr. Cameron, the Australian representative, gave an excellent summary of Australia's task in New Guinea, which was also well received. The League Council recently deeided that the Mandate Commission sb.ould meet once instead of twice yeurly, Norway now proposes the reyergipn to the hi-annual meeting.