No More Tahitian Labour: Reform Affects Three Mid-Pacific Islands
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L.H.W.
No More Tahitian
LABOUR Reform Affects Three Mid-Pacific Islands From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, Dec. 5.
ANEW regulation forbidding the recruiting of labour in French Oceania for service outside the limits of the colony has compelled the proprietors of Christmas, Flint, and Caroline Islands to reorganise their working staffs.
These islands —adjacent to French Oceania but under the British flag—have been managed, hitherto, from Papeete, and operated with indentured labour from the French islands.
It is reported that Christmas Island has been turned over by its French owners to Messrs. Burns, Philp and Company. The Tahitian workers are to be returned to Papeete, and the Christmas Island plantations will be worked by labourers from the Gilbert Islands.
The conditions at Christmas Island have been under criticism for a long time. It