CARE-FREE SAMOANS
r EMPLOYMENT REFUSED /NINE NATIVES APPROACHED own corbSspondent") - APIA, SAMOA. Sept. 27 The experiment of employing local labour on the Reparation Estates plantations iff not meeting with the great success promised by the Mau. Mr, It. , Ott, manager of. the central group of •the Crown Estates, was despatched to the island of Niue to recruit 25 boys for the plantations, as local labour was not offering. After a month's stay he returned with only eight recruits. The Samoan natives are unstabte ana cannot be depended upon to femain in employment for any length of time. They are unaccustomed to hard work and are content with a few shillings when the urge arrives to seek amusement. News of a cricket match, feafea or other social gathering will cause them to drop tools, .no matter important the work upon which they are engaged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23161, 6 October 1938, Page 10
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