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Southland Times, Issue 18844, 9 June 1920, Page 5

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DEPORTATION l-'i'OM SAMOA. Till:; MAIN'S I’ASSNNGKHS. (Per United Press Association.) ■WELLINGTON, Juno 8. With reference to a recent cablegram from Sydney concerning tiie departure of tlie steamer Main for New Zealand with a number of Gormans on hoard to be repatriated, it is now ascertained that the vessel really left for Apia, where she is due in a day or two. Site will there take on board practically all the Germans remaining on the island. The' Main was formerly a Ger man ship, and lias been provided by the imperial Government for the carriage away from here of a number of Germans, some of whom were being compulsorily repatri-

ated and some of whom desired to be repatriated. Australia was allowed to .-end a number of similar people by the same ship. The bulk of the Germans sent on account of New Zealand are planters and others in Samoa, about 200 in ail, mostly full-blooded Germans with no Samoan family ties. In addition to these there were some thirty other Germans in New Zealand who desired to gel back to their own country, and it had been arranged that they should be sent over to Sydney to join the Main there. Unfortunately, owing to the advancing of tHe sailing date at Sydney, no time was allowed for these people to get across, and they were advised that they would not have a chance of going by the Main and probably not for several months.