Labour
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New Hebride
Plans To Use Javanese ar Italians
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Dec. 3.
IN Paris, M. Durand Revil Senator for Gabon, has giv to the paper he owns (La Pres de I’Union Francaise) an arti( dealing with the labour problem the New Hebrides.
He says that at present only 3 Tonkinese out of 1,800 are worki on plantations, and he asks t.
French Government to study t matter and to establish an “Imir gration Bureau.”
The French authorities introduc in the New Hebrides over 2.G Tonkinese from French Indo-Chir on five years’ contracts. The To kinese proved fairly good worke Recruited prior to World War they could not be repatriated at t end of five years owing to shippi: shortage and were allowed to i main in the Condominium as fr citizens. A certain number becar small shopkeepers and the othe worked as casual labourers.
The French authorities repatriat a certain number of them duri 1948 and 1949. To replace the the French brought in Javane labourers, the first boat-load whom arrived in 1949.
In 1951, a French settler C Grazziani) arranged for Itali labourers to be introduced into t Condominium. It is said, in V and Noumea, that the first si load of Italians has left Genoa.