BLACK AND WHITE LABOUR.
Queensland Sugar Plantations
(by electric telegraph.)
[pee press association.]
Melbourne, This Day. Dr Maxwell’s report to the Federal Parliaments on the Sugar Industry with a special enquiry as to the value of black and white labour has been circulated. When white labour is considered in relation to skill, endurance and stability its highest efficiency obtains in the southern districts. The value is reduced to a minimum in ultra tropical districts. The converse value applies to black labour. Thus it appears that the labour powers in climatic extremes of sugar areas are made to economically compensate each other. It is indicated that invention may be expected to provide mechanical devices for harvesting cane and other work. These further strengthen the current tendency to substitute the lower by higher forms of labour. The increasemem of white settlers upon sugar growing lands during the past decade with a reduction of Islanders, indicate that under the operation and given natural laws particularly in certain latitudes, the Pacific Islander is relatively a declining factor in the production of Queensland sugar.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 August 1901, Page 3
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179BLACK AND WHITE LABOUR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 August 1901, Page 3
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