K-Missionary’S Outcry

Gainst

[?]Uliama Expedition

N June 12, Sydney Morning Herald, under a big heading, “Native Labour Recruiting Trip Islands,” announced that the le Burns Philp motor vessel Hama had gone to the Gilbert i Ellice Islands area to pick up sh parties of native labourers, I return time-expired boys to ir homes. leaven knows why the Herald uld have got so excited about a alar and normal proceeding. The Hama goes in this way every r or two to Fanning and Wash ion atolls, where there are big mut plantations but no native ulation, and carries the Gil ;ese labourers back and forth. • rnen on the overcrowded >erts are very eager to engage this well-paid labour contract. atolls named are part of the ind E Colony. it the repprt stirred up a former ads missionary who, signing self “(Rev. Dr.) E. E. V. Collo . Beecroft,” wrote for the Herald tter in which he painted a dis picture of “the basic mis yousness of taking peasants far i the securities and social re ns of their villages, to work as arers in foreign stores and tations.” He said that this led afresh the whole disquiet question of indentured labour.” ands people, of course, treat statements with the mixture nusement and contempt which deserve. But mainlands folk, ang nothing of the real condi »u&turally get the impression this is further evidence of the citation of the h e 1 n 1 e s s flers.” Probably there is no mischievous influence in •ui a^^ lrs to-day than this irre ible element—the retired mis ry newspaper-letter-writers.

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actor William Winter ii

ing his 15-ft canoe down the iy, from New South Wales to i Australia.” He was in Ren at the end of June