Samoa, Thanks!
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Minister Prefers Samoa, Thanks!
In his radio broadcast to Western Samoa in June, the NZ Minister of Islands Territories, Mr. F. L. A. Gotz, told of his visit to Papua-New Guinea in April for the official opening of the newly-enlarged Legislative Council.
He visited the Australian Terri tory with High Chief Malietoa.
Said Mr. Gotz: “We saw 1 the developments in that vast Terri tory. I recall some of Samoa’s part in missionary activity in the South Pacific, and neither of us could fail to be impressed by the advance that Samoa has made in comparison with the much larger and more populated area of New Guinea—both the Aus tralian and Dutch sides.
I for one, if I have my choice, would never exchange one little bit of Samoa for the whole of New Guinea.”