CHINESE FROM TAHITI
Returning Home TIMES TOO HARD. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 20. There is a party of fourteen Chinese aboard the liner Makura. They are returning to China for good, because of there being acute business depression and a lack of '.work in Tahiti. The liability of all Chinese youths born in Tahiti foG military service is an additional reason for their departure. The spokesman of the party said that the youths were sent to France for military service. “We no like to be soldier.” he said. Before the slump, he stated, all of them were prosperous storekeepers. laundry men and gardeners in Tahiti, but now they were ahi poor.
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Grey River Argus, 21 August 1934, Page 5
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