Tonkinese Labourers.
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A New Hebrides correspondent writes: “Your informant is not quite correct when he says that Communism has been responsible for the repatriation of Ton kinese labourers from the New Hebrides.
The reason is chiefly £ s. d. —Tonkinese gentlemen are an expensive luxury in these hard times. There are very few left now—barely 1,000 working units.
“I have not heard that the planters here are thinking of introducing Javan ese instead of Tonkinese. I do not think the Dutch Government in Java will be too enthusuiastic about the in denturing of their coolies for the New Hebrides.”