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Samoa Under the Sailing Gods

VIII

VIII

At the Tenth Session of the Permanent Mandates Commission in Geneva (1926)—

"The Chairman took note with great satisfaction of the page 219accredited representative. Western Samoa was under very capable administration, as the Commission had been able to realize from an examination of the report."

Sir James Parr

"hoped the Commission would not pay too much attention to the attacks of disgruntled white people on the administration of the territory…. No Government could possibly object to reasonable criticism, but the Government of New Zealand feared that if too much attention was paid to the attacks of irresponsible newspapers, difficulties would be created for an honest, hard-working Administrator who was doing his best in not too easy circumstances."

Sir F. Lugard said

"he often asked questions with the object of calling attention to successful experiments for the benefit of administrators in other mandated territories. They might perhaps find in them something useful…. Thus he had drawn attention to this system by which the Fono of Faipules passed regulations on native affairs which were approved by the Administrator without reference to the Legislative Council.

"Sir James Parr thanked Sir F. Lugard for his generous appreciation of the work done by the Administration of Samoa. He thought it would be difficult to find in all history an instance where natives had been better treated than they were in Samoa.

"Sir F. Lugard explained that the views which he had expressed were not only his own personal views, but those which the whole Commission had recorded."