Apia’S Unemployed
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Seek Share of N.Z. Xmas Relief Fund
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, December 19.
WHEN news reached Samoa by wireless of the generous gesture of the new Labour Government of New Zealand in presenting the N.Z. unemployed with a Xmas box of £lOO,OOO, the unemployed of Apia (about 50 Europeans) resolved to apply to the N.Z, Government to be like wise considered. A radio was sent with the support and recommendations of the Acting Administrator (Mr. A. C. Turnbull) and the two elected M’s.L.C. (Hon. A. G.
Smyth and Hon. I. H. Carruthers).
Most of the local unemployed have large families to support and have been out of work for a considerable time. Fortunately there is no unemployment among the native Samoans. Every Samoan family has a plot of land to live upon, and their work on European plantations, in stores or on Government work is mostly of a casual nature. The worker is able to return to his village, his family and his land, whenever he feels like it or loses his employment.
Mr. Sidney Burdekin Bossley died in his sleep on December 4 at Nadi, Fiji.
Born in 1879 at Liverpool, New South Wales, he served in the Boer War and on his return from South Africa in 1904 left for Fiji under engagement to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. Mr.
Bossley remained in the service of the C.S.R. Co. until his death. A keen sportsman, he was interested particularly in racing, being the owner of the race horse Joffre.