Further Retrenchments in Samoa
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Samoa.
From Our Own Cornspondrnt APIA, July 10.
THE continued decrease in revenue of the Administration, caused by the drop in imports and the curtailed banana shipments, has caused further retrenchments of officials.
The retiring Collector of Customs, Mr.
A. Macdonald is not to be replaced; his duties will be taken over by the Acting Collector of Customs, Mr. Mur ray Mitchell, and the Treasurer, Mr, Pound.
It is further reported that the Secre tary of Native Affairs is to retire shortly and his office, which, for the last few years, owing to the passive resistance of the “Mau,” has been, more or less, a sinecure, is to be abolished.