Post by nzbc on Apr 29, 2017 19:06:13 GMT 12
Chinese Coolies for Samoa.
One hundred and eighty coolies, from Hong Kong and its outlying districts came to Apia this week, per s.s. "Hi Ching." The steamer took aw a y with her 111 time expired Chinese coolies from plantations on these islands; also four "rejects" from the new party; medically unfit. The totality of the new party seems to ke paiticularly good and intelligent. Amongst the party are 26 Chinese who have worked in Samoa previously, and who state that the i i reasons for returning are that they like Samoa and found conditions here pleasant; whereas in China there is a great deal of unemployment and of internal trouble due to Bolshevist influences springing from Canton.—-With the addition of this week's immigrants, the total number of Chiuese coolies in Western stands at 950. Chinese Coolies for Samoa.
SAMOANISCHE ZEITUNG, VOLUME 26, ISSUE 34, 20 AUGUST 1926 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SAMZ19260820.2.21?query=chinese%20samoa
One hundred and eighty coolies, from Hong Kong and its outlying districts came to Apia this week, per s.s. "Hi Ching." The steamer took aw a y with her 111 time expired Chinese coolies from plantations on these islands; also four "rejects" from the new party; medically unfit. The totality of the new party seems to ke paiticularly good and intelligent. Amongst the party are 26 Chinese who have worked in Samoa previously, and who state that the i i reasons for returning are that they like Samoa and found conditions here pleasant; whereas in China there is a great deal of unemployment and of internal trouble due to Bolshevist influences springing from Canton.—-With the addition of this week's immigrants, the total number of Chiuese coolies in Western stands at 950. Chinese Coolies for Samoa.
SAMOANISCHE ZEITUNG, VOLUME 26, ISSUE 34, 20 AUGUST 1926 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SAMZ19260820.2.21?query=chinese%20samoa