An Experiment With
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Samoan Labour
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Aug. 9
THE New Zealand Reparation Estates are at present conducting an experi ment, on one of their cocoa plantations, wherein they are employing only Samoan labour instead of Chinese coolies as pre viously. The experiment was ordered by the N.Z. Government, to investigate the possibility of running a cocoa plantation with local labour only.
Rev. D. P. Misra, an Indian missionary, who is proceeding to Fiji, where he will join the Church of England Mission, arrived in Sydney by the Strathaird in mid-August.