Samoa's Native Parliament
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From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Sept. 13.
AFTER ll days’ debate, the Pono of Faipule (Native Parliament) has just completed its annual session.
Few matters of importance were dealt with, though a number of minor requests were forwarded to the Administration.
They asked that in future the Faipule, native members of the Legislative Coun cil, and officials be made permanent after next elections; that a European teacher be provided for the Government Boys’ High School at Avele; that the crime of murder be punished with death; and that stronger measures be taken against natives guilty of tying-up men like pigs in the ancient Samoan custom (see article in June “PIM”).
Protest was expressed against loading vessels and cutting bananas on Sunday.
The Fono also urged a better price for copra, pointing to the comparatively high price—l 2- per 100 lb—now being paid in Pago Pago, against 2 - in Apia.
The Administration replied that Am.
Samoa has shipping and markets to which we have no access and that in regard to the banana industry, Western Samoa is much better off than her sis ter territory.
Colonel Ross Field, of the New Guinea Department of Public Works is at present in Sydney on furlough.