Too Many Missionaries , Samoa Decides

New Guinea which now has nearly 40 religious sects operating as missions and believes that it cannot do anything about it (be cause NG is a Trusteeship Territory) may be interested to know that Western Samoa, which is also a Trusteeship Territory, has decided that it can do something. Recently it was decided by the High Commissioner to restrict the entry of Mormon (Latter Day Saints) missionaries who had been pourmg into the Territory until there was one for every 38 adherents. J This prohibition was later challenged in the Legislative As sembly by a member who considered the prohibition a breach of the Trusteeship Agreement and the Declaration of Human Rights, to say nothmg of the Samoa Amendment Act, 1957. However his motion was defeated so these missionaries, except in fixed quota (one missionary to 200 adherents), stay out.