Another Step
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Samoans To Take
In Local Gov’T
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Oct. 20.
THE Attorney-General of W.
Samoa, Mr. W. E. Wilson, out lined the proposed system of local government in the Territory, when the District and Village Gov ernment Board Bill was before the Legislative Assembly during October.
The Board will first begin to es tablish District authorities, rather than Village authorities. Such auth ority will be interested in every as pect of the life of the people in that District, and its power for good will come from its general administra tion of the District and its advice to the central government on the needs of the people there. The functions of the authorities will be
gradually extended from a limited control, at the beginning. En couragement of increased produc tion in the District would be one important function; the encourage ment of thrift another.
The Board would have the power to organise and maintain a watch ful control over the operation of the District and eventually the Village authorities.
H Mr. C. A. Seller, who has been oi secondment to the Colonial Offio since 1951, returned to Fiji recentl and has been posted to the Secre tariat in Suva. fl Mr. A. L. Harrison has bee appointed to a new Fiji Police De partment post of Vehicle Examm ing Officer. He will be stationed i Suva.