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MR. YORE IN SAMOA When the foregoing message was referred this morning to the Hon. O. F. Nelson, he stated that Mr. Yore had been in Samoa for some time, and had had good opportunities of studying the conditions, and noting the attitude of the natives. Mr. Yore was at Apia at the time of the much-discussed King’s Birthday celebrations, and also when 6,000 dissatisfied natives paraded outside the Courthouse when the Citizens' Committee met Mr. Nosworthy. CHIEFS OF HIGH DEGREE Mr. Nelson explained that every time a chief was banished, or otherwise humiliated, the temper of the natives was more severely tried. Some of the men who had been robbed of their titles were men of high degree. Their ancestors had fought for those titles in battle, and they naturally resented any attempt to deprive them of their honoured names. “The Samoan,” said Mr. Nelson, “is the gentleman of the Polynesian races. Among the men who have been banished are -chiefs of fine physical and mental type. By his methods the Administrator has cast a slur upon a proud people.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 100, 19 July 1927, Page 1
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