Nominated Executive
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Ccl. Not
For W. Samoans
APIA, April 10.
OFFICIAL and Ministerial wishes to the contrary, the Legislative Assembly of Western Samoa is determined that members will choose their own Executive Council and not have members of it nominated by the High Commissioner.
This was a matter taken up, without avail, with the New Zealand
minister, Mr. Webb, during a recent visit to the Territory, but at the March-April sitting of the Assembly, after a heated debate, a motion was carried by a large majority that European and Samoan members of the proposed Council should be chosen by appropriate sections of the Assembly.
A clause in the draft proposal for the constitution of the Council, that the High Commissioner should have authority to terminate the member ship of any member, was also deleted.