THE NAURU MANDATE
ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT, SLAVERY NON-EXISTENT. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, May 27. The report to the League of Nations on the administration of Nauru was -tabled in the House of Representatives. The Administrator replies to ouestions addressed to him by the League on the subject of slavery by stating:—“Slavery does not exist on the island, therefore there is no necessity to take any steps to ensure its suppression. No particular legislation has been enacted to ensure the prohibition of forced labour, but forced labour for any purpose, even for public works and services, is not permitted. The recruiting of Nauruan native labour is not practised, the men as a rule being employed by the day, week, or month. Neither is recruiting in Nauru for other territories permitted. Very few of the natives care for any kind of sustained work.’’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19801, 28 May 1926, Page 9
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140THE NAURU MANDATE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19801, 28 May 1926, Page 9
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