Samoan Parliament Attempts
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"Sit-In" Strike
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, June 10.
TTHE Fono of Faipule (Samoan Parlia -1 ment) is to terminate its session this week. Other than ask repeatedly for the grant of an additional allowance for themselves, the Faipule have done ex ceedingly little for the good of the Samoans generally and in consequence little interest is taken in the proceedings by the large majority of natives.
These representatives of the Samoan people went so far as to unsuccessfully attempt a “sit-in” strike, with the sole result that they were ridiculed by a car toon published in the N.Z. Observer.
Madamoiselle Raymonde Pogn o n, daughter of M. Raymond Pognon, former Speaker of the local parliament in New Caledonia, was married in Sydney to Mr.
Lindsay Walker, of Melbourne, on June