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Post by NZBC on Apr 27, 2015 21:48:54 GMT 12
CHINESE LABOURERS. IN PUBLIC WORKS CAMP. EARNING £4 A WEEK. NEW PLYMOUTH, tlm day. On tin Bedford Road, in the Inglewood- Kaimino district, there are 29 tents including two bathrooms and one wireless tent, occupied by 12 Chinese and about nine whites. All the Chinese are from Wellington, and have been at the camp for the past three months, their work, along with that of other employees. being inn inly to clean out creeks and drains settlers' farms in the district. Two of the Chinese are spending their Labour Day week-end on holiday at New Plymouth, "as a change from camp life." as one of their friends put it. Interviewed to-day one of the Chinese stated that all 12 of them had come from Wellington about three months ago to work at the camp. Tliev are being paid at the rate of £4 a. week, but when working in water while cleaning out drains they receive £4 a week. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS19381024.2.119&cl=search&srpos=2&e=-------100--1----0inglewood+chinese--&st=1 Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 251, 24 October 1938, Page 9
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