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Samoan
Tariff Is Postponed
APIA, April 8.
BECAUSE there was to be a gen eral election for European and Samoan members of the Legis lative Assembly on April 13, the Assembly did not deal finally with matters affecting the British Pre ferential Tariff at its last session in March.
A report by a Government De partmental Committee on the Tariff did not recommend the abolition of Preference for British goods—it said that abolition would not be in the interests of the Ter ritory. Instead, it recommended a revision of the existing Tariff, so as to divide goods into three categories.
Members of the Assembly pointed out that the Assembly already had adopted the recommendation of its own Select Committee that the Tariff be abolished; that the Trusteeship Council had supported this step; and that the NZ Govern ment had agreed to abolition.
However, the Assembly resolved that no immediate decision be made.
Assistant Medical Practitioner Paul Godinet recently needed medical aid and blood for a Samoan woman on whom he had performed a Caesarian operation and success fully delivered her child, at lonely Ta’u, Manu’a Group of American Samoa. He radioed for assistance and a small fishing boat from the North Star, Pago cannery vessel, with Laboratory Technician E. B.
Farrar and Hospital Administrator C. E. Lincoln took over and helped administer sufficient blood to save the woman’s Fife and aid her in her subsequent recovery.