New Zealand Gazette – 1925 – No. 23

Page 973

✨ Native Regulations for Samoa

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THE NATIVE REGULATIONS (SAMOA) ORDER, [1925.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 30th day of March,
1925.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING 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.

THESE regulations may be cited as the Native Regulations (Samoa)
Order, 1925, and shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1925.
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise indicates,
the word “person” means a person who is a Samoan as defined by
section 3 of the Samoa Act, 1921.
DISTRICT COUNCILS.
The Territory of Western Samoa is hereby for the purpose of
Native self-government divided into the districts named in the first
column of the Schedule hereto. The Administrator may from time to
time, by notice in the Western Samoa Gazette, define or alter the
boundaries of such districts or create any new districts. Subject to
any such definition or alteration, the several districts shall respectively
comprise the villages set opposite to the names of each district in the
second column of the Schedule.
There is hereby established for each of the said districts a
District Council which shall consist of—
(a.) The Faipule for the time being representing the district by
appointment of the Administrator:
(b.) Chiefs of that district chosen by the Village Committees of
the villages in that district to the number which the said
Faipule shall from time to time decide:
(c.) The Pulenu’us from time to time holding office in the villages
in that district by appointment of the Administrator:
(d.) The Pulefa’atoaga from time to time exercising jurisdiction
in that district by appointment of the Administrator:
(e.) Any Samoan Commissioners appointed by the Administrator
under the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order,
1920, usually resident in that district.
Each District Council shall meet twice yearly at such times
as the Faipule of the district shall, with the approval of the Administrator,
appoint, and at such other times as the Administrator may direct,
and shall be presided over by the Faipule of the district when he is
present.
The functions of a District Council as hereby constituted shall
be—
(a.) The more convenient administration of the district for which
it is established and the maintenance of law and order
therein; and
(b.) The making of by-laws for the district more particularly defining
the duties of the Samoans resident in that district in regard
to the matters set out in the next succeeding clause; and
B