[?]amoan Home Rule

"By 1960."

IE people of Western Samoa, destined for self-government by Constititional Convention of 4, have been asked to pass judg t upon a plan released in January the New Zealand Government aimed at Samoan Cabinet ernment in 1960. lis plan, made known by the i Commissioner, Mr. G. R. les, provides for the establish t of Cabinet Government by e steps, the first to be taken year, the second at the end 157, and the third, if satisfactory ress has been made, in 1960. abinet Government having been sssfully established,” the official ment says, “only one more fica’nt step would be necessary re it could be said that self rnment had been achieved, his would be a change in the is of the New Zealand repre itive and the assumption by the I State of the proper powers functions of that office.

Tien this should be done would le subject of discussion between new Government of Western Da and the Government of New md.” iitors to Western Samoa to-day truck by the vigour with which mile people are prosecuting the msibilities already handed over tern, particularly in the educa -1 field. t this spirit is not universal, i political apathy exists, and j Samoans, content with their under prevailing prosperity, ir a slow transition from the nt trust administration to a ; rule that bristles with diffi ;s, due mainly to the age-old isies that divide the still rful and ambitious chiefly ies. stern Samoa has been riding :ocoa and copra boom, but the - peak has passed, and, con -3 of the phenomenal birth rate e group, the New Zealand Gov ent urges the Samoan leaders ct in the realisation that cal progress depends largely a sound and adequate economy. 24-years-old Brisbane school er, Miss Joan Coley, has left alia to take up her appoint as principal of St. Mary’s •1 for girls of the Indian Mission basa, in Vanua Levu, Fiji. ?adier H. B. Norman, Admin or of Norfolk Island, is negoti with TEAL for a weekly air it link with Auckland to com e this year, the centenary of nding of the Pitcairn Islanders Drfolk.