“No Hint of Handing Samoa
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Back,” Says N.Z. Prime Minister
From Our N.Z. Correspondent..
AUCKLAND, April 30.
THE attitude of the New Zealand Gov ernment toward the returning of Samoa to Germany was referred to the Prime Minister (Mr. M. J. Savage) re cently, following discussions as to the future of mandates in the English House of Commons. He made the following state ment on the matter: “So far no hint in the direction of handing Samoa back to Ger many has come to us from Britain, and I think it would be wrong for me to discuss a possible situation that may never arise.”
Dr. F. E. Montague, who has been ap pointed senior medical officer of the Gil bert and Ellice Islands, recently arrived at Funafuti, Ellice Is., from Fiji with his wife by the London Missionary Society’s vessel John Williams V.