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Post by NZBC on Aug 5, 2012 20:53:45 GMT 12
Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 11
CHINESE LABOURERS. PROTEST FROM SAMOA. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. One of the policy declarations of the Labour party was that the indentured labour system in Samoa should cease and Chinese and Melanesian labourers should be repatriated. There appears to be an. objection to this among Europeans in Samoa, and a protest has been sent to the Government againet a reported intention to carry out repatriations. The Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, stated that he had received a communication from two members of the Samoan Legislative Council suggesting that the labourers should not be repatriated, but the Government had not considered the question and had not come to any decisions. According to the last report on the mandated territory of Western Samoa there were 503 Chinese labourers in the country and 93 Melanesians, all of whom are employed on the New Zealand Reparation Estates.
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Post by NZBC on Aug 5, 2012 20:57:45 GMT 12
RACES INTER-MARRY.
BIG PROBLEM IN SAMOA.
CHINESE TO BE REPATRIATED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Monday.
The repatriation of Chinese and Melaneeian labour at present in Samoa will be commenced by the New Zealand Government during the coming 12 months. Referring to the visit of the goodwill mission on its "return to Lyttelton to-dav? Mr. James O'Brien, M.P. for Westland, stated that the question of the inter-marriage of the was one of the big problems of Samoa and the delegation had given the people there an undertaking to repatriate the laboiir that had been brought into the country during the past administration.
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 year to year until outside labour had been removed. It 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 on 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 destinv.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 183, 4 August 1936, Page 10
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Post by NZBC on Aug 5, 2012 20:59:07 GMT 12
NOT TO BE REPATRIATED.
KEIiANESIANS IN SAMOA. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Samoan correspondent of the United Press Association wrote on October 1G that since the goodwill mission visited Samoa, Chinese and Melanesian labour had been the subject of negotiations between the New Zealand Government and the Planters' Association. Mr. J. O'Brien, a member of the mission, made a statement that all Cliinese labour and Melanesians were to be repatriated. Representations were made to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, for the retention of coolies and black boys, and the Prime Minister has now replied that, mainly on humanitarian grounds, the Government does not propose to repatriate Melanesians to their home country. The policy in regard to Chinese labour, Mr. Savage added, is to be given careful consideration.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 260, 2 November 1936, Page 9
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