REPATRIATIONS?
CHINESE LABOURERS. PROTEST FROM SAMOA. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. One of the policy declarations of the Labour party was that the indentured labour system in Samoa should cease and Chinese and Melanesian labourers should be repatriated. There appears to be an. objection to this among Europeans in Samoa, and a protest has been sent to the Government againet a reported intention to carry out repatriations. The Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, stated that he had received a communication from two members of the Samoan Legislative Council suggesting that the labourers should not be repatriated, but the Government had not considered the question and had not come to any decisions. According to the last report on the mandated territory of Western Samoa there were 503 Chinese labourers in the country and 93 Melanesians, all of whom are employed 011 the New Zealand Reparation Estates.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 11
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