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(b.) To set aside areas of Native land approved by the Administrator
for communal cultivation of cotton and other products.
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Every person to whom land is allotted as aforesaid for his
cultivation who without reasonable cause fails to comply with the
reasonable requirements of the District Council or Village Committee
for its cultivation, and every person who without reasonable cause
fails to comply with the reasonable requirements of the District Council
or Village Committee for the communal cultivation of any area set aside
for that purpose, is liable to a fine not exceeding £2. -
(1.) Each District Council is empowered and required to fix
the number of coconut-trees, bread-fruit trees, banana, taro, yam, and
sugar-cane plants, and other trees or plants for food purposes which shall
be annually planted by each able-bodied male Samoan resident in its
district.
(2.) Any such Samoan who, without reasonable cause, fails to
comply with the reasonable requirements of the District Council under
this clause is liable to a fine not exceeding £2.
- Every person who occupies or takes the produce of or who
controls persons who occupy or take the produce of any land planted
with coconuts is liable to a fine not exceeding £2 if and as often as such
plantation is not kept weeded to the satisfaction of the Director of
Agriculture or his appointee, unless such person can show that he has
made all reasonable efforts to keep it so weeded.
AITAGI OR DEATH FEAST ABOLISHED.
- The holding of an "aitagi" or death feast in Samoa is prohibited.
Any person present at or in any manner concerned in the holding of an
"aitagi" is liable to a fine not exceeding £2.
TREATMENT OF DISEASES.
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It shall be the duty of the father, or, in default of him, of the
mother or other guardian, of any child suffering from yaws to immediately
report the fact to the Pulenu'u of the village in which such child is
resident. -
It shall be the duty of every Pulenu'u who has information
that any child is suffering from yaws to immediately report the fact to
the Secretary for Native Affairs at Apia or to the Resident Commissioner
in Savaii. -
No person having custody of a child suffering from yaws shall
permit such child to travel or to enter or remain in any other village
than that in which it is usually resident, except for the purpose of being
treated by a Medical Officer. -
No person shall treat or undertake to treat any other person
for the disease of yaws by means of any Native or other remedy not
approved by the Chief Medical Officer. -
It shall be the duty of the father, or, in default of him, of the
mother or other guardian, of every child under the age of ten years to
produce such child for inspection and medical treatment whenever and
wherever reasonably required by a Medical Officer or by a person having
the authority of such officer. -
It shall be the duty of the father, or, in default of him, of the
mother or other guardian, of every child treated by a Medical Officer,
or other person having the authority of such officer, for yaws or any other
disease to permit such child to receive, and to secure, that such child
undergoes the full course of treatment prescribed by such officer or
person. -
No person being required by a Medical Officer or other person
having the authority of such officer to submit himself for treatment
for the disease of yaws shall refuse or neglect so to do.
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Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 1925, No 23
NZLII —
NZ Gazette 1925, No 23
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The Native Regulations (Samoa) Order, 1925
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🪶 Māori Affairs30 March 1925
Regulations, Samoa, Agriculture, Health, Disease Control, Yaws