SAMOANS ELATED
impending clean sweep L OF OFFICIALS dr. a. h. tovey returns -Though the European population is - at all pleased at the drastic and .weeping changes made in official circles in Samoa, the members or the Mull are elated. This was the opinion expressed bv nr A II- Tovey. assistant -medical cdictr to the Administration of Samoa, who returned to Auckland by tile Tofua this morning. Dr. Tovey, who formerly practised .. Tauranga, has just completed a , hrte -vear term in Samoa, two years Y w hich were spent in Apia and a ?aar at Aleipata on the island ol' I" polu. •The Samoans generally are a peaceful nice." said the doctor, "but an undercurrent of what almost might be culled impertinence to the Europeans 1 us been apparent for some time. How,er it lias not taken any stronger !.,roi than the calling of names or the throwing of sticks and stones at cars lx followers of the Mail. -The news of the clearance of officials was ms big a surprise to Europeans in Samoa as it was to people in Xew Zealand.” he said. * Dr Tovey is on his way to Tauranga to rejoin his family.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 615, 18 March 1929, Page 1
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