REPATRIATION.
PROBLEM IN SAMOA. CONCERN OF PLANTERS; REPRESENTATIONS TO N.Z. The Samoan correspondent of the "Auckland Star" states that the decision of the New Zealand Government regarding political and economic concessions promised to the Europeans and natives of Western Samoa by the recent goodwill mission have so far not' been announced. Meanwhile the Europeans have read announcements by the members of the goodwill mission that they will insist on the repatriation of Chinese and Melancsian labour and its replacement by Samoan labour. The planters consider that Chinese are very suitable for the work. The Planters' Association of Samoa has lodged a protest against the threatened proposal, and has asked the New Zealand Cabinet by radio to postpone any such step until the representations of the planters are received. Some of the Melanesians have worked in Samoa for many years, and have married Samoan women. They are goo workers, law-abiding, and have no c sire to return to then- original homes. Samoa has been promised an extra quota of bananas for December next, but owin- to dry weather the fruit is l?Ot , plentiful, although the Maui will lift a full quota of 7100 cases fruit for the South Island.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 233, 1 October 1936, Page 9
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198REPATRIATION. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 233, 1 October 1936, Page 9
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