Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1949Vol. XX, No. 2

An Embarrassment

p. 10 · Read in the full issue

Page 1010

Asiatic Labour Contracts

Noumea, Sept. 4.

NEW CALEDONIA is finding it a costly matter to repatriate its South Asiatic labour, contracts for which expired in the war and post-war periods.

Not only have births in the colony in creased the number of those needing repatriation, but the cost of passage since 1939 has gone up from 750 francs to 5,000 francs.

Repatriation arrangements are in the hands of the Immigration Department, which deducts a monthly sum from em ployers to cover this charge.

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