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APPLICATION OF COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT TO SAMOA. Charles Fergusson, Governor-General. Order in Council. At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of September, 1927. Present: His Excellency the Governor-General in Council. His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa, conferred upon him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby make the following regulations. Regulations. 1. These regulations may be cited as " The Samoa Commissions of Inquiry Order, 1927." 2. The Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908 (as amended by the Commissions of Inquiry Amendment Act, 1920), hereinafter called " the said Act," and the scale of costs made under the Commissioners Act, 1903, on the 15th day of December, 1903, and enuring under the said Act, shall extend and apply to and be in force in Western Samoa. 3. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, section 2 thereof shall be deemed to extend to the administration of the Government of Samoa and to the conduct of any officer in the Samoa Public Service (as defined by the Samoa Act, 1921) or the New Zealand Reparation Estates Service (as defined by the New Zealand Reparation Estates Service Order, 1926). 4. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, section 6 thereof shall be read as though after the words " Courts of law ' were added the words " in New Zealand proper." 5. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, subsection (1) of section 8 thereof shall be read as though for the words "Minister of Internal Affairs" were substituted the words "Minister of External Affairs or the Administrator," and as though after the words "Consolidated Fund" were added " or out of the Samoan Treasury as, having regard to the circumstances, the Minister of Finance may think fit." 6. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, section 12 thereof shall be read as though there were added thereto the following additional subsection :— " (4) The Court so named may nevertheless, irrespective of the amount recoverable under the order, if the person by whom any costs are ordered to be paid is, in the opinion of the Commission, resident in Samoa, be the High Court of Western Samoa." 7. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, subsection (2) of section 13 thereof shall be read as though after the words " Supreme Court " were inserted the words " or High Court of Western Samoa," and as though for the words " that Court " were substituted the words " such Court." F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council. AUTHORIZING THE ADMINISTRATOR OF WESTERN SAMOA TO PROHIBIT THE TRANSMISSION OR DELIVERY OF CERTAIN TELEGRAMS. Charles Fergusson, Governor-General. Order in Council. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 18th day of February, 1928. Present: The Right Honourable J. G. Coates, P.C., presiding in Council. In pursuance and exercise of the power to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Western Samoa, conferred on him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth. Regulations. 1. These regulations may be cited as the Samoa Post and Telegraph Amendment Order, 1928, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Samoa Post and Telegraph Order, 1920. 2. For the purposes of these regulations the term " telegram " means any despatch, message, or other communication conveyed, transmitted, or presented for transmission by the method commonly known as wireless telegraphy. 3. The Administrator may, in his absolute discretion, prohibit the transmission from Samoa, or the delivery in Samoa, of any telegram of any of the following classes : — (1) Any telegram expressed in code, unless such telegram is accompanied by a transcript thereof certified as correct to the satisfaction of the Administrator. (2) Any telegram which in the opinion of the Administrator contains matter of a treasonable, seditious, libellous, or grossly offensive character. (3) Any telegram which in the opinion of the Administrator is intended or is likely to instigate the commission of any criminal offence. (4) Any telegram which in the opinion of the Administrator is intended to or may cause any person in any way to prevent or hinder or attempt to prevent or hinder the due performance by the Government of New Zealand of its functions and duties in relation to Western Samoa, or is, in the opinion of the Administrator, in any way calculated to prevent or hinder the due administration of the Executive Government of the Territory. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council. THE NATIVE PERSONAL TAX ORDINANCE, 1927. Western Samoa.—No. 4, 1927. An Ordinance made by the Administrator of the Territory of Western Samoa, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of that Territory, and in pursuance of the Samoa Act, 1921. Title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Native Personal Tax Ordinance, 1927.

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