Tonkinese Labour
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Big Exodus From N. Caledonia
From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, January 5.
AS forecast in The Pacific Islands Monthly, the outflow of inden tured Tonkinese and Javanese labour ers continues and it is estimated that within the next two or three months fully 1,000 coloured people will leave the colony.
It is evident that the absence of this indentured labour will make itself felt in the economic life of the col only. Not only will the revenue earned by these workers be lost to New Cale donia, but the circulation of money earned by them, as well as their own consuming power, will also be missed.
It is, however, only part of the gen eral readjustment of conditions and values throughout the world. New Caledonia has been particularly lucky so far, but it cannot continue to escape the natural readjustment at present going on.