Future of Papuan Labour

HERE is a note from Mr. Ralph T.

Gore, who was Judge in Papua for many years, until the evacuation, and who now holds an important legal position in South Australia; “I wonder if those who advocate so strongly the abolition of the indenture system for Papua have considered care fully the probable result. Without going into the many reasons for saying so, to my mind, with a non-indenture system there will be insufficient labour available in Papua, necessitating the introduction of Asiatics on the indenture system The Papuan is going to suffer.”