THE SOCIAL LAWS.
, inc auuim. j.a no • GREYMOUTH, May 28. Some time in February last a statement emanating from Mr Howard, of Christchurch, a prominent member of the Labour Party, was published in the newspapers of the dominion with reference to immoral conditions prevailing amongst the industrial labourers at Fiji. If tho conditions wore as bad as alleged tho nationalisation of women was tolerated under tho British fla <t; therefore tho British people had no rigid to criticise the ■ Bolshevist. A resident of. Greymouth wrote to the Colonial Secretary at Suva, and forwarded him a copy ,of Mr Howard’s statement. He has just received the following reply: “ Under Ordinance No. 1, 1892, provision is made for tho protection of newly-manned immigrants as well as others, And section 17 of tho Ordinance provides a heavy penalty in reepoot to any person interfering with tho wife of an immigrant .The provisions of this section are explainer! by Immigration officers to immigrants on arrival in the colony.’
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Otago Witness, Issue 3403, 4 June 1919, Page 53
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