LABOUR IN SAMOA
REPATRIATION QUESTION
[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON, October 5
Ono 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. 'lheic appears to be objection to this among tho Europeans in Samoa, and a protest has' been sent, to the Government against its reported intention to carry out such repatriation. Tho Prime Minister (Mr. Savage) stated that he had received a communication 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 tho mandated territory of Western Samoa, there aro 503 Chinese labourers in the country and 93 Melanesians, all of whom aro employed on Now Zealand reparation estates.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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