THE SAMOA JAUNT
p.’EB PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. j APIA, This Day. Sir J. Allen and members of the l’a;-.. liamentary party met the Europeans tin j Wednesday morning, when there was
I a full opportunity for discussion. The I (London Missionary Society representij tive disassociated himself from the report re liquor prohibition. He said thj mission favoured prohibition. He men tioned personally that he did not favour the principle of prohibition. Dealing until labour for agriculture Sir J. A l -.., len emphasised that New Zealand Government recognised throughout the oc_ cupation that labour urn essential to the maintenance of the plantations. 11” , detailed the efforts to secure indentur- . ed labour, but pointed out that Government was under a bond to repatriate and also had definite instructions from the Imperial Government on no nc- | count to indenture more labour. The , New Zealand Government was so impressed by the urgency that they had again and again communicated with the Imperial Government, asking permission to reindenturc. Eventua’ly they were permitted to reindenture fur two periods of six months following the armistice. Government begged for ;< i longer reindenture, to secure two yea 's and optional reindenture for Chinese, hut the Australian Government declined further indenture or reindenture >*' Solomon islanders. Inquiries were made about Javanese, hut no definite information was available. He announced that a limited number of Niueans were coining to carry out the public works but Niue was most anxious to avoid a ■ further depletion of man power. Sir J. Allen explained the undertaking given last session. After 'a. debate the New Zealand Parliament decided not to in-
crease indentured lalwurens beyond tl e existing number. He said the whole subject would be discussed next session sion. He continued that, he personally believed it was necessary to provide labour for the recent plantations and perhaps provide for the development of other lands,
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