Miscegenation

From Our Own Correspondent.

Apia, May 4.

THE law aiming to prevent cohabitation between Chinese plantation labourers and Samoan women is to be more strictly enforced in future.

On April 8 seven Samoan women and six Chinese labourers of the Government plantations at Tuanaimato and Faleleuniu appeared in Apia High Court charged re spectively with being found in the coolies’ quarters and with allowing the women on their premises. Commissioner Kay point ed out that these were the first charges of the kind for some time, and that the coolies were liable to three months’ im prisonment and the women to one month.

Under the circumstances he would con vict th,e offenders and order them to come up for sentence within three months, if called upon.