Native Regulations Continuation




(b.) To set aside areas of Native land approved by the Administrator
for communal cultivation of cotton and other products.

  1. 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.

  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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 PDF NZ Gazette 1925, No 23


NZLII PDF NZ Gazette 1925, No 23





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🪶 The Native Regulations (Samoa) Order, 1925 (continued from previous page)

🪶 Māori Affairs
30 March 1925
Regulations, Samoa, Agriculture, Health, Disease Control, Yaws