THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

European either by birth or by registration as aforesaid: And
whereas it is expedient to make regulations accordingly for the
registration as Europeans of persons belonging by mixed descent to
the Polynesian race:

Now, therefore, 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 laws for the peace, order, and good govern-
ment of the Territory of Western Samoa conferred upon him by the
Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920, made by His Majesty
on the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty,
under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, and in further pursuance
of clause four of the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920, doth hereby
make the following regulations with respect to a Register of Euro-
peans in Samoa; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations
shall come into force in the Territory on the same day as the Samoa
Constitution Order, 1920.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Samoa Registration of
   Europeans Regulations, 1920.

2. It shall be the duty of the Registrar of the High Court, as
   soon as practicable after the coming into force of these regulations,
   to prepare, in such manner as may be approved by the Chief Judge
   of the High Court, a register, to be called the Register of Europeans,
   wherein shall be entered the names and such other particulars as may
   be required by the Chief Judge of all persons who at the time of the
   coming into operation of these regulations are registered as
   foreigners in accordance with the laws theretofore in force in the
   Territory.

3. Any Samoan who is not of pure descent from the Polynesian
   race may, by way of petition, apply to the High Court for inclusion
   in the Register of Europeans.

4. The Chief Judge of the High Court shall hear and determine
   such petition on the personal appearance of the applicant, and may,
   if he thinks fit, and if he is satisfied that the applicant is entitled to
   be registered as a European in accordance with these regulations,
   make an order for such registration accordingly.

5. In making an order for such registration the Court shall
   be satisfied—
   (a.) That the applicant, if a male, has attained the age of
   eighteen years, or, if a female, has attained the age of
   fourteen years;
   (b.) That the applicant is able to read a printed passage of not
   less than one hundred words in the English language, to
   be selected by the Court.
   (c.) That the registration of the applicant as a European is con-
   sistent with his own interest and with the public
   interest.

6. Upon such an order for registration being made as afore-
   said the Registrar shall enter the name and description of the appli-
   cant in the Register of Europeans.

7. On the application of the Administrator, or an officer of the
   Samoan Public Service in that behalf authorized by the Administra-
   tor, the name of any person included in the Register of Europeans
   may be ordered to be removed therefrom by the Chief Judge of the
   High Court on such cause being shown and such evidence adduced
   as shall to him seem sufficient, and upon any such order being made
   the Registrar shall remove such name accordingly.

8. All persons whose names appear for the time being in the
   Register of Europeans established by these regulations shall be
   deemed to be registered as Europeans within the meaning of clause
   four of the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.