West Samoan MLA
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as NZ “Wharfie”
THE Hon. P. L. Morgan, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Samoa, who went to New Zealand to address the House of Representatives on the question of Samoan self-government (see April PIM) was working on the Wellington wharves in early May.
Mr. Morgan, according to a Well ington report, had not then had an opportunity to address Parliament, and his funds had run out.
Born in New Zealand, Mr.
Morgan has lived and worked in Samoa for most of his 55 years. He retired several years ago from a Government post to take charge of a cocoa plantation.
Among the posts he held in the administration were chief clerk in the Treasury Department, chief clerk in the Public Works Depart ment and secretary of the Board of Trade.
He is now one of the 17 elected European and Samoan members of the 25-member Legislative Assembly. fl Dr. Donald Marshall, American ethnologist, has recently been en gaged in research work in the Cook Islands.