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Two Incidents Annoy
W Samoa
From our own correspondent APIA, March 23.
TWO recent events here have stirred up some criticism of the Adminis tration.
All four of the medical men stationed in Western Samoa—among them two Erhre^have r °r^sie l i^d 1 Vn a m d fhp n service here cause of inadeou^te sa ri el n nd nn^t' isfactorv r?ndft?nn? salaries and unsat lslactory conditions, All a re good men—especially the two doctors from India. They say they like the country, but that the Administra tion is too stingy in relation to salaries and allowances. If we lose the services of these four men there is going to be “nSfv reaction among the Population s y ‘ The other matter which has aroused criticism of the Administration is an other escape from gaol. Four Samoan prisoners got away from Gafaigata Prison on March 24, and have not yet been retaken. Some of them were under sentence for stealing Messrs. Smyth & Go’s, motor-launch, “Wyben,” which they cast away on Vanikoro, in the Southern Solomons. The frequent escapes of prisoners from custody indicate a weak ness somewhere in the organisation