INDENTURED LABOUR IN SAMOA
OBJECTION TO REPATRIATION PROPOSALS
{PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)
WELLINGTON, October 5,
One of the policy declarations of the Labour party was that the indentured. labour system in Samoa should cease, and that Chinese and Melanesian labourers should be repatriated. There appears to be objection to this among the Europeans in Samoa, and a protest has been sent to- the Government against its reported intention to carry out such repatriation. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) stated that he had received a comrnunication from Messrs Smyth and Carruthers, members of the Legislative Council of Samoa, suggesting < that 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 , are 503 Chinese labourers in the country and 93 Melanesians, all of whom are employed on New Zealand reparation estates.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21906, 6 October 1936, Page 10
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