Samoan Official In Limelight.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Apia, Aug. 10
THE general manager of the Repar ations Estates, Mr. Goetz, has been much in the limelight lately.
He has actively opposed the growing public demand for the sub-division of the Estates; and he has been severely criticised for dismissing local em ployees and replacing them with men brought over from New Zealand — although there is much European un employment here.
Mr. Goetz and one of his overseers, Mr. Stewart, were charged in the Apia Court on August 3 with assaulting a plantation employee. The case against Goetz was dismissed; but Stewart was fined 20/-.