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CHINESE LABOURERS
NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXXIII, ISSUE 22488, 4 AUGUST 1936
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19360804.2.110?query=chinese%20samoa
Over 200 Chinese would leave Samoa for their own country in less than 12 months and other drafts of Chinese and Melanesians would be made from vear to year until all outside labour liad been removed. Tt was not possible to repatriate all the Chinese and Melanesian labour at once, as it was necessary that some of these people should be retained to complete the work oil copra plantations, for which they had been originally engaged. Mr. O'Brien added that the delegation had formed the opinion that the Samoans could easily be brought to become industrious and, under proper Government supervision, could be allowed to work out their own destiny.
NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXXIII, ISSUE 22488, 4 AUGUST 1936
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19360804.2.110?query=chinese%20samoa
Over 200 Chinese would leave Samoa for their own country in less than 12 months and other drafts of Chinese and Melanesians would be made from vear to year until all outside labour liad been removed. Tt was not possible to repatriate all the Chinese and Melanesian labour at once, as it was necessary that some of these people should be retained to complete the work oil copra plantations, for which they had been originally engaged. Mr. O'Brien added that the delegation had formed the opinion that the Samoans could easily be brought to become industrious and, under proper Government supervision, could be allowed to work out their own destiny.