“Untrue”

Report About N.Z. Officials and Samoan Wives

From Our Own Correspondent.

Apia, Oct. 27.

TTHE Fono of Faipule, when sitting in Apia during October, discussed a very wide variety and range of subjects.

The Acting Administrator (Mr. A. C.

Turnbull) was asked, for instance, whether it was a fact, as reported, that officials of the Administration who married native Samoan or half-caste girls were dismissed from the service, or were sent back to New Zealand. If there was such a regulation, said the Faipule, it should be revoked— officials should be allowed to select their wives without interference.

The Acting Administrator declared that the report to which reference was made was untrue.