Future Of Samoa.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —With reference to suggested Colonial Office administration for Samoa, I was very pleased to see your able correspondent, Mr. Ernest Davies’s admirable letter. The “P.I.M.”, all along, has bravely and righteously ex posed the stupid, blundering methods of the military martinets from ultra democratic New Zealand, who have so ruthlessly trodden underfoot the ten derest instincts cf the Samoan elders — Te Ariki.

The Colonial Office, with its hundreds of years of experience, understands the business of guiding the explosive Asian-Pacific mind towards the en telechy of civilisation. I most heartily endorse Mr. Davies’s wise suggestion.

The untrained, amateurish political pup is not the kind of watch-dog we need in the Pacific just now, with the cryptic, financial “World War” now de veloping across its once remote surface.

I am, Sir, etc..

Arthur J. Vogan.

Sydney, Oct. 25, 1932.

Fiji shippers of bananas deny sugges tions made on behalf of Australian ban ana-growers that the Fiji fruit caused bunchy-top to develop on Australian plantations. Fiji bananas, they state, are particularly clean and free of dis ease, and Fiji had never sent any ban ana disease to Australia.