RACES INTER-MARRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 183, 4 August 1936, Page 10

RACES INTER-MARRY.

BIG PROBLEM IN SAMOA.

CHINESE TO BE REPATRIATED.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Monday.

The repatriation of Chinese and Melaneeian labour at present in Samoa will be commenced by the New Zealand Government during the coming 12 months. Referring to the visit of the goodwill mission on its "return to Lyttelton to-dav? Mr. James O'Brien, M.P. for Westland, stated that the question of the inter-marriage of the was one of the big problems of Samoa and the delegation had given the people there an undertaking to repatriate the laboiir that had been brought into the country during the past administration.

Over 200 Chinese would leave Samoa for their own country in less than 12 months and other drafts of Chinese and Melanesians would be made from year to year until outside labour had been removed. It was not possible to repatriate all the Chinese and Melanesian labour at once, as it was necessary that some of these people should be retained to complete the work on copra plantations, for which they had been originally engaged.

Mr. O'Brien added that the delegation had formed the opinion that the Samoans could easily be brought to become industrious and. under proper Government supervision, could be allowed to work out their own destinv.