Being Sent Out of Samoa

Chinese Coolies

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Oct. 25.

Administration has announced that the steamer Aagres will arrive during the first half of December to re patriate time-expired Chinese coolies.

Coolies on cocoa plantations, however, will be allowed, if willing to do so, to sign on for another period. All other coolies —e.g., those employed on coconut plantations, rubber plantations, and as artisans, cooks, etc.—will not be allowed to remain.

As a number of coolies from the cocoa plantations have expressed their wish to return to China, the replacement of these men is under discussion. They will be replaced either from coolies employed at present who are not on cocoa plantations, or by new recruits from China if possible.