LIQUOR IN SAMOA.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1919, Page 5

LIQUOR IN SAMOA.

THE PROHIBITION PROPOSAL. RESENTED BY RESIDENTS. "HIGH HANDED ACTION." By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrljlit. Received Nov. 5, 7.45 p.m. London, Nov. 4The Press Association has received the following message by wireless from Apia, signed Croudace, chairman: — "A large and representative public meeting of British, Allied, and neutral citizens unamimously passed the following resolutions, which have been handed to the Administrator: First, this meeting wishes to emphatically protest against the high-handed action of the authorities in establishing prohibiten in this territory by military proclamation. We claim that if prohibition *s necessary here we, the residents, are the right ones to decide the question, and should have been consulted, whereas to use the powerful machinery of militarism (impartially obeyed during the war, but now twelve months after it is intolerable) has raised intense indignation and distrust among us, and we urgently insist that such a despotic'and utterly uncalled for measure be withdrawn immediately. "Second, that a petition be signed and presented to the Administrator with the request that he forward it to the proper authorities in New Zealand"Third, that a copy of the petition be forwarded to the Colonial Office through the High Commisisoner of the Western Pacific." The message adds that the petition, which is being eagerly signed, will be forwarded by mail. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.