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CHINESE IN SAMOA
TO BE REPATRIATED.
PROTEST BY PLANTERS. COMPARISON WITH DOMINION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) APIA, December 3. As tlie New Zealand Government is apparently determined to stick to its intention to repatriate tlie Chinese plantation labourers from Samoa, the European settlers have decided to fight for their threatened existence against the policy of the New Zealand Government with all the means at their disposal. It is pointed out by the Europeans that while the New Zealand public may not be much interested in the Chinese .problem in Western Samoa, there is also an Asiatic problem existent in New Zealand, with a Chinese and Hindu population of over 5000. It is claimed that while the New Zealand Government intends to deprive the planters of Samoa of their Chinese plantation labour, for which no substitute is available, it allows Asiatics in New Zealand practically to monopolise tlie market gardening and laundry businesses, as well as the fruit trade, to deprive a great many white New Zealanders of a livelihood by their competition.
The question is asked here: "Why, if the New Zealand Government is so anxious to solve the Asiatic problem by doing away with Asiatic labour, docs it not start to apply the remedy in New Zealand?" CHINESE IN SAMOA
AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXVII, ISSUE 298, 16 DECEMBER 1936 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19361216.2.129?query=chinese%20samoa
TO BE REPATRIATED.
PROTEST BY PLANTERS. COMPARISON WITH DOMINION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) APIA, December 3. As tlie New Zealand Government is apparently determined to stick to its intention to repatriate tlie Chinese plantation labourers from Samoa, the European settlers have decided to fight for their threatened existence against the policy of the New Zealand Government with all the means at their disposal. It is pointed out by the Europeans that while the New Zealand public may not be much interested in the Chinese .problem in Western Samoa, there is also an Asiatic problem existent in New Zealand, with a Chinese and Hindu population of over 5000. It is claimed that while the New Zealand Government intends to deprive the planters of Samoa of their Chinese plantation labour, for which no substitute is available, it allows Asiatics in New Zealand practically to monopolise tlie market gardening and laundry businesses, as well as the fruit trade, to deprive a great many white New Zealanders of a livelihood by their competition.
The question is asked here: "Why, if the New Zealand Government is so anxious to solve the Asiatic problem by doing away with Asiatic labour, docs it not start to apply the remedy in New Zealand?" CHINESE IN SAMOA
AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXVII, ISSUE 298, 16 DECEMBER 1936 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19361216.2.129?query=chinese%20samoa