SAMOAN DISCONTENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 77, 22 June 1927, Page 13

SAMOAN DISCONTENT

QUESTION FOR PARLIAMENT VIEWS OF MR. HOLLAND Press Association. GRBYMOUTH, Tuesday. The position in Samoa and the statement of the Hon. W. Nosworthy were referred to by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. H. E. Holland, this evening. Mr. Holland said the Samoan position -was altogether unsatisfactory, and would have to be seriously discussed by Parliament. It seemed to him that in the administration New Zealand was copying some of the worst features of the German pre-war control. Parliamentary representation of both the Samoans and the whitest was rendered farcical by reason of the fact that in the former case the faipules were appointed by the Administration, and in the latter case the electoral qualification was on a property and income basis. The making of an Order-in-Council empowering the Administrator to order a native-born citizen or a naturalised subject to leave Samoa because he persisted in opposing the Government’s policy there was an outrage which could not be permitted to go unchallenged. Mr. Nosworthy’s attack on those who sought to make constitutional changes was strangely similar to some of the attacks on Robert Louis Stevenson, when he was engaged in ; demanding justice for Samoa and the i Samoans some 40 years ago.