Trusteeship Mission Reports
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to UN on W. Samoa
r[E report of the UN Trusteeship Council Mission on their visit to Western Samoa in May 1956, contains nothing of a startling nature.
The Mission comments favourably on the rapid political advancement of the Territory and considers that full self-government should be achieved in 1960, keeping to the time-table proposed by the New Zealand Government.
The Mission also favours the maintenance of special relations with New Zealand to the mutual
m ter es t of the two countries. T* 1 ' ° u Sh Mission would have welcomed the introduction of universa! suffrage, it app?eciates the attachment of the Samoan people to the matai system and accepts then* contention that this system represents a form of family democracy. The Mission also shares the misgivings of the New Zealand Government concerning the proposals for the two fields of State and regrets the delay in determining the common domestic status of the inhabitants of the Territory.
J A son, Stephen John, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Smith, of Lae, NG, on July 6.