Hebrides
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Italians For Work In
A FRENCH planter on Santo is reported to have been autho rised, by the French adminis tration, to recruit up to 2,000 Italian workers for the New Hebrides under conditions already settled.
The Question of transport is being studied* and the first contingent of 100 workers, it is said, will leave on a Messageries Maritimes ship.
The French are looking to this labour to strengthen the Con dominium’s economy now suffering from labour shortage due to the withdrawal of Javanese and Indo- Chinese and the difficulty of finding satisfactory native workers.