Title: Samoa at Geneva : misleading the League of Nations : a commentary on the proceedings of the Permanent Mandates Commission at its thirteenth session held at Geneva in June, 1928

Author: Olaf Frederick Nelson

Publication details: The National Printing Company, Limited, June 1928, Auckland

Part of: Tidal Pools: Digitized Texts from Oceania for Samoan and Pacific Studies

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Foreword

This commentary was prepared by the writer in London in September last on receipt from Geneva of the "Extract from the Minutes of the Permanent Mandates Commission." It was then published in instalments in the "Samoa Guardian", the first of which appeared on November 8th, 1928.

The conditions prevailing in Samoa are such that the subject is of deep public interest in New Zealand and the writer has been urged to give these criticisms wider publication than afforded by the publication of them in the Samoan Press.

Since the contents appeared in Apia, a General Election in New Zealand has brought about a complete change of Government in the Dominion, but the subject matter of the commentary is reprinted in its original form as written in London before the elections. The references to the "Government of New Zealand" indicate, of course, the former Reform Administration which is now, happily, a thing of the past.