Labour For New
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Caledonia
Javanese Will Cost About £6/10/-A Per Month
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, May 30.
THE French Colonial Minister has £iuthorised the gradual repatriation of Tonkinese workers from New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, and has informed the Indo-Chinese High Commis sioner of this decision.
It is proposed to pay Javanese workers — now due to arrive in New Caledonia— at the rate of 600 Pacific francs monthly for men and 500 francs for women en gaged in agriculture, and 100 francs extra per month in other occupations, during their first year of employment. (160 Pacific francs equal the Australian £.) For the second and third years they are to get an additional 100 francs a month. They are on a three-years’ contract.
Employers will, as well, have to provide lodging, food and two issues of clothing per annum; the fares to Noumea and for final repatriation; and insurance—in all, an extra 350 or 400 francs per month.
This is equal to about £6/10/- A, per month.
These rates of pay also apply to Javan ese and Indo-Chinese who have been in the Colony for years.