WILL N.Z. ACCEDE?
Affirmative Hint Given by Mr. Savage. CHEAP LABOUR MUST GO. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary • Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. A definite declaration that the day of Chinese indentured labour in Samoa was rapidly disappearing, was made by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, to-day, when commenting on a cablegram from Apia in which decisions made at a meeting of representative Samoans were reported. Mr. Savage said Chinese labour meant cheap labour, and the Government was out to improve standard of living in Samoa as in New Zealand. So far no reply had been sent to the Samoans, as the Government's time had been occupied in dealing with other questions. As for the other point in the representations, the Prime Minister said that the Samoans were entitled to elect anybody they thought fit to make representations to the New Zealand Government through the Administrator, and intellectually Mr. O. F. Nelson seemed well qualified for the job.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 238, 8 October 1936, Page 7
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