NEW ZEALAND RULE BENEFITS SAMOANS
EVIDENCE OF FAIPULES SITTING OF COMMISSION Special to Press Association. — Bp Wireless Reed. 9.5 a.m. APIA, Saturday. Giving evidence before the Samoa Commission, Toelupe end Tuaiagaloa, chiefs and Faipules, testified that under the New Zealand administration Samoa was more prosperous than under former controls. New Zealand's administration was for the good of Samoa. The evidence established that the Samoan custom gave absolutely no voice to the Samoan rank and file in political matters. Several other Faipules testified similarly regarding the beneficial effects of New Zealand's control.—A. and N.Z. Toelupe, who was a Faipule under seven Governments of Samoa, including that of New Zealand, said there was no unrest in Samoa until October last, when it was caused by the Mau. Banishments were customary In old Samoa for comparatively trivial as well as for serious offences. He considered that no Samoan was clever enough to be in the white man’s Legislative Council. Samoan wisdom was not that of the white men, which was reason. All Samoan efforts to organise and manage trading companies had invariably failed. The present Fono Bystem was the only practicable way for the present generation in Samoa.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 177, 17 October 1927, Page 1
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