CONTROL OF SAMOA.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 June 1919, Page 6

CONTROL OF SAMOA.

I NEW _ZEALAND’S STEWARDSHIP A REPLY TO CRITICISM_ LONDON ‘April 11. An attack on the New Zealand :16.ministrator of Samoa was made by Captain Annandale at the meeting of the Royal Colonial Instifinife, at which Mr G. H. Seliolefielrl i‘(':'-’-.afl u.’ paper ‘on “Problems of Reconstruction in the ]Pacific{’ Captain Annandale stated that he had lived in the group for many years under the German regime. The New Zealand a.dnliniSitl'atioll, he 'said, had interfered with the labfur zxrangements of the p‘:~lni'e*'s in .<.:llch 3 \'.':l.V us to ix:l',mii' so;'ious'._V their prossperity, and he e:li'z;e:=.f‘?_V l1o;'>od flint [the British Govez-;m_.lent_. and not the New Zealancl Gowerrnnent w<'mhl lie igiven control of the 2:-laruls, Sir Gilbert Pal‘kel' mC~L']e srllorf, work of this Complaint. It was. he sai-<l. :1 very good principle that people who could manage their own country were the best people to be entrusted with the manzigement of <lepemloneie.<:. He thought New Zenland and Australia. should manage, the late German col--o’-‘-iSC‘» fldiiilceiit to them, and he hoped that the British Empire would never consent to make a report of its stew—

Eardship to the League of Nations or _ any other authority. 5 Sir William MacG;l'ogol', who is the [greatest living authority on the Pacific, was in the chair. He expressed himself unequivocally in favour of New Zealand and Australia being the stewards of the Pacific pOSSOSSiOIIS under discussion. He had always Te‘ garrlcd Papua as a (lpcndellcy Of Australia, and as for New Zealand, it could not be denied that she" had taught the natives of Polynesia. to love and respect" her. That xvas Pl'o"ed by the manner in which they ‘had come forward in the war. ......._.____.___...__....._