THE KANAKA QUESTION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 8698, 5 January 1907, Page 2

THE KANAKA QUESTION.

Unexpected Difficulty.

Per Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Sydney, January 5. The Herald, dealing with the question of the repatriation of kanakas, calls attention to the fact that in the Island of Malaita, from whence the majority of kanakas in Queensland were recruited, each village keeps a number of female slaves for immoral purposes. The female children born in Australia are regarded as not possessing tribal rights, and there is little doubt that they will be made slaves when they return with their parents. The Herald adds that missionaries will give their protection to all returning natives as far as they can, but even the mission stations in Malaita are not altogether safe against raids. The matter is one requiring prompt attention with a view to preventing the deportation of young girls bom and reared in Queensland to enter upon such a life, which is too repugnant for even the warmest advocates of kanaka expulsion to contemplate.