LABOUR IN SAMOA.
CHINESE AND ALELANESIANS
Per Press Association
WELLINGTON, Oct. 5,
One of the policy declarations of the Labour Party was that the indentured labour system in Samoa should cease and that Chinese and Alelanesian labourers should be repatriated. There appears to he an objection to this among Europeans in Samoa and a protest has been sent to the Government against the reported intention to carry out repatriations. The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. Al. J. Savage) stated that he had received a communication from Alessrs Smyth and Carruthers, members of the Samoan Legislative Council, suggesting that labourers should not he repatriated, hut the Government had not considered the question and had not come to any decisions. According to the last report on the mandated territory of A\ estern Samoa, there were 503 Chinese labourers in the country and 93 Alelanesians, all of whom were employed on New Zealand repatriation estates.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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