Coolies for Waihi.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 82, 4 October 1912, Page 5

Coolies for Waihi.

--»— A LA SOUTH AFRICA. STARTLING IH;MOR~. A rumor of startling ,md uiT=specfed developmeni;'. lik---!>- \.< vo?n ever.tunte in connection with the. W'sihi strii;e was current in lof-a! circle;; to-day. :-;v.s the Dunedin '.Star" of Finiurday. Sentfinber 21. It is said ih.i; a movement is on foot to ask llie Gov runient to permit ■I lift importation r.f or Indian coolies 1o work Mv l V\aihi mine?. Tlie streusith of thn movonvnt is ssid in he centred m London., v.-he-re of the Waihi shares a held, th* other fourth being held in New Zealand. It ir stated that H the Government declines to suspend the alien immigration restrictions, as desired by the mine-own-ers, tho poil tax will be paid on sufficient colored labor to work the mines, the laborer to indent, for :i three to fiv€-yenr p"iind. with a provision that at the end of ili;it. iiiiK' they shall be M.'ut buck to their country, nnd "I heir passage naid by file mine-owners. Su<'h a movement, is merely riiinorrd, •but it is said that the rumor is based mi ii subsiiiit nin of f:iH ■