Samoa Legislative Council
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Prom Our Own Correspondent t APIA, Oct. 15. rpHE elections for two unofficial mem- X bers of the Legislative Council of Western Samoa are fixed for Novem ber 26. The present members are Messrs.
A. G. Smyth and I. H. Carruthers.
The franchise has been very consider ably extended. Every European resid ent, male or female, over 21 years of age, being a legitimate child of European de scent, is now entitled to vote. The elec toral roll, which comprised about 300 names under the old system, based on income or property of £2OO per annum, will probably be composed now of some 800 to 1,000 names, of whom 75 per cent, are of mixed European-Samoan descent.