Investigate
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Trusteeship Council To Investigate W. Samoa Claims Committee of Colonial Specialists Will Arrive in Apia in June
DURING June, July and August this year a commission will be sent to Western Samoa by the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations. This Com mission will study the petition of the Western Samoans for self-Government.
This was lodged some time ago.
The commission has been formed at the suggestion of the New Zealand Govern ment, which is stated to be anxious to have the fullest study made of conditions in the former Mandated Territory. New Zealand’s representative on the Trustee ship Council urged that the commission be made up of experts in colonial ad ministration and should stay long enough in the Territory to make a thorough in vestigation. He refused to discuss the feelings of New Zealand about the petition stating that any expression of views by New Zealand would prevent the commis sion making an impartial study.