CHINESE & COOLIES.
REPATRIATION OF LABOURERS IN SAMOA. GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSALS. CHRISTCHURCH, August 3. The repatriation of Chinese and coolie labour at present in Samoa will be commenced by the New Zealand Government during the coming 12 months. Referring to the visit of the goodwill mission on its return to Lyttelton to-day, Mr. James O’Brien M.P. for Westland, stated that the question of the inter marriage of races was one of the big problems of Samoa and the delegation had- given the people there an undertaking to repatriate labour that had been brought into the country during the past administration. Over 200 Chinese would leave Samoa for their own country in less than 12 months and other drafts of Chinese and coolies would be made from year to year until all outside labour had been removed. It was not possible to repatriate all the Chinese and Negroid labour at once, as it was necessary that some of these people should be retained to complete the work of the copra plantations for which they had been originally engaged. Mr. O’Brien added that the delegation had formed the opinion that Samoans could easily be brought to become industrious and under proper Government supervision could be allowed to work out their own destiny — (P-A.) 7
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Wairarapa Age, 4 August 1936, Page 5
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