The Mau And Infantile

Paralysis

Fi’om Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Jan. 21.

IT was owing to the representations of ■ the Samoan Man that a number of European permanent residents of the ritory, returning to their homes on the Matua, were not allowed to land or to be placed in quarantine on shore, and had, to their great indignation, to return to Fiji or New Zealand.

The attitude 6f the Samoan authorities regarding the prevalence of infantile paralysis in New Zealand is in marked contrast to the practice in all other ports touched at by the Matua, (Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji) where passengers and crew were allowed ashore without diffi culty.

Editorial Note

It is becoming clear that, since the “Goodwill Mission” brought practical Socialism to Samoa, the Mau (the political organisation representing about 60 per cent, of the natives) has been given extraordinary powers in Administrative affairs.

The foregoing is a good example of what is going on. Incidentally, it explains what appeared to be cruelty and callousness on the part of the Apia officials, in driving away five residents of Apia who were returning to their homes. Apparently, the officials were only carrying out the orders of their masters of the Mau. And the slogan of th.e Man could be written thus: “Samoa for the Samoans! Out with all Europeans!”

Mr. G. V. Maunsell-Turner, Stipendiary

Magistrate at Rabaul, arrived in Sydney

from New Guinea on leave by the Malaita on January 15.