Post by nzbc on Apr 29, 2017 20:01:12 GMT 12
Otago Witness
The labour supply for the plantations of German Samoa has for some years past been obtained from Canton, and there are now several thousand Chinese coolies in the "roup, engaged mostly in plantation work. Captain Allen, who arrived in Sydney last week by the Ventura, from Pago Pago, said that the Chinese were good workers, and wen- in such demand that another shipload of them was being brought out, a transport with 1030 aboard being due to arrive at Apia.
OTAGO WITNESS, ISSUE 3091, 11 JUNE 1913 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19130611.2.111?query=chinese%20samoa
The labour supply for the plantations of German Samoa has for some years past been obtained from Canton, and there are now several thousand Chinese coolies in the "roup, engaged mostly in plantation work. Captain Allen, who arrived in Sydney last week by the Ventura, from Pago Pago, said that the Chinese were good workers, and wen- in such demand that another shipload of them was being brought out, a transport with 1030 aboard being due to arrive at Apia.
OTAGO WITNESS, ISSUE 3091, 11 JUNE 1913 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19130611.2.111?query=chinese%20samoa