WESTERN SAMOA
INDENTURED LABOUR SYSTEM POLICY OF REPATRIATION (Per United 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 the Chinese and Melanesian labourers should be repatriated. There appears to be an objection to this among the Europeans in Samoa and a protest has been sent to the Government against the reported intention to carry out repatriations. The Prime Minister stated that he had received a communication from Messrs Smyth and Carruthers, members of the Samoan Legislative Council, 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 the mandated territory of Western Samoa there are 503 Chinese labourers in the ccuntry and 93 Melanesians, all of whom are employed on New Zealand reparation estates.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23004, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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