Post by nzbc on Apr 16, 2016 20:22:54 GMT 12
The promise made by the Right Hon. W. F. Massey to Parliament some three years ago, that indentured labour in Samoa would be discontinued as soon as possible, commenced to be fulfilled on Wednesday of last week, say a the "Samoan Times'' of November 0, when j 3;"i2 time-expired Chinese labourers were repatriated. Mr. Pope, of the British I Phosphate Commission, is proceeding through to Hongkong by the vessel, as I the joint representative of the Samoan I Administration and the Phosphate Com- I mission. At a low estimate, these labourers are returning with between f-IUOO and £5000 in drafts, in addition j to which a large number of them have been remitting their savings regularly i to China, during their three years' resi- dence here. During the embarkation, His Excellency the Administrator asked to <ec the weeping wives and children he had read so much about in the New Zealiand papers prior to his arrival here, but not one was to be found.
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