INDIAN EMIGRANTS.
LURED AWAY BY FALSE HOPES. By TclejrraDh—Press Association—Copyrisrht Sydney, August 30. Mr. D. Manibal, a prominent Indian barrister, has arrived hero en. roiite to Fiji, for the purpose of conducting an investigation into the questions of indentured Indian labour. According to Mr. Manibal, touts in India, with the connivance of Europeans, induce Indians by false hopes and glowing pictures to leave homo under contracts, the conditions of which they are ignorant. Ho declares that tho leading men in India are strongly averse to immigration of indentured labour. "Indians are wanted at home to develop the country's industries and resources," says Mr. Manibal. "Only the riff-raff migrate as a Tule, but we don't want to lose even them."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 5
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119INDIAN EMIGRANTS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 5
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