Samoa
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Niue Labourers For
How N.Z. Government is Replacing Chinese
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, Sept. 13.
THE plantation manager of the New Zealand Reparation Estates, Mr. R.
F Ott, left recently for Niue Island, to recruit 20 Niue islanders as plantation labourers for the New Zealand Govern ment’s Reparation Estates.
Niue boys have proved superior as plan tation workers in Samoa to the native Samoans —especially for work of a per manent nature —and it is believed that in future a larger mimber of Niue islanders will be contracted for work on Samoan Government and private plantations.
This is a very interesting development.
The New Zealand Ministers, when they came here in July, 1936, and insisted on the reparation of the indentured Chinese labourers, argued that all the plantation labour needed could be supplied locally.
They would not listen to the experienced planters, who declared that tne well endowed Samoans had never accepted re gular work as labourers, and probably never would.