THE TAMASESE GOVERNMENT BALANCE-SHEET.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 68, 8 February 1890, Page 3

THE TAMASESE GOVERNMENT BALANCE-SHEET.

TO TH* gOROI. " 8i •,—T have just ***• tke hahnoesheet of the fat* deeaaaed Tamaatae p OoT-mruent. I am n<4 aumciently r acqnaintei with the affairs of the late , ** Qovernment to eritUae th* whole b of the balance • sheet, hut there ia one . *» item which I think d-mands an ex-1 plnnntion. via., fines infliotrd on the. | natirea by governors and Judges, $428. 0 and (he whole at this cornea from r Tutuil.i. Apparently, nothing waa j „ I cnllei ted on Upolu and Bavaii,aad, a*' t < th* fallowing list will aho%, th* whole' " of the fines inflicted here were not paid f , . over—Aunuu, t!6O j Pagatngo and I Ana, *i4S ; Tualouta «nd NnuU. $350;; ' iTnlna, $300; B*l.l* (chi«f). SSO: t Total, $993. What baa bmome of the, a Hal*. nc»? Besides the above, various 1 j small *nee, amounting to at leant another thousand dollars, were eollested. y i Barely, it ia poesibte to find out whore , ', this monev ha« gone to. Aa lirandois, i appaffiitiy. did not receive it. aomeou« in Samoa must hare it. Tho now i Oovernment shonld- investigate, and I ! nmke the culprits disgorge. All thorn I who take an interval in Samoa should j I at onm give you all information in ' t regard to any fines which, to their. \ knowledge, have been put on the natives and not aoomnntod tor in the I, Imlaaee-sheet. Thia ia an important j matter, as, in appointfag new native . officials, the government shon'd know who to trust.—l am, etc., Trader. ] Leowe, Jan. 25. 1890. ■