COLOURED LABOUR
FOR NORTHERN TERRITORY
TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR PROPOSAL.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTMOHT.) (Received January 17, 10 a.m.)
. ADELAIDE, This Day. Mr. Durak, a member of the West Australian Parliament, supports the proposal of the Premier, Mr. Barwell, to employ coloured labour in the Northern Territory. He suggests that alien or indentured labour should be tried for a period of twenty-five years, on the area north of the 19th parallel, and that a. percentage of the indentured workers should be repatriated each five years, so that all should be sent home by the end of the twenty-five yaars.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 13, 17 January 1922, Page 7
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95COLOURED LABOUR Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 13, 17 January 1922, Page 7
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