Commissioner May Replace
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Western Samoa
Commissioner May Replace Administrator
A RESIDENT of Samoa, in a personal letter to the editor, says;— “There are more than a few indications that the present Administrator of Wes tern Samoa, Brigadier-General H. E.
Hart, will retire when his appointment, expires in April, 1935, and that there will be, for the present, no further ap pointment of an Administrator.
“It is believed that the New Zealand Government, for reasons of economy, will appoint Mr. A. C. Turnbull to take charge of the administration, with the status of Commissioner. Mr. Turnbull now is Secretary to the Administrator, and is Acting Administrator in the absence of General Hart.
“Such an arrangement would be wel comed by the people here, as Mr. Turn bull is held in considerable esteem, and the need for economy is generally recog nised.