TREATMENT OF FORRIGN LABOUR BOYS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 71, 1 March 1890, Page 3

TREATMENT OF FORRIGN LABOUR BOYS.

W IMMtok II aid %<■* thst " The fa’ IMmU Mm m hj« it end "H ; » ib i bet '* *W*(C% «re seldom what Ihojr «•**• ’ la* week Mr Kdwa*d Half, the medium of your valuable Mlpur, rtfdiN ialo print, and bewails the fata of a labour boy whom ha to have had to aand away from bh place under compulsion from the Btittth Contul. flow, air, whatever vnmf (ha boy may hire differed at tha hand* of the German*, ha aoa brought hare under contract to the fltnaini. and until hi* return home ia under the jurisdiction of •he German Consul. consequently the Biitinh Con•id had no option but to raqunat Mr. Hall to re’nrn the hoy to hi* enijdoye,**, mid the more so especially if the contract time hail not expired. The boy’* assertion that In* wan engaged for three r cars, and that he bad worked 5j year* cannot he implicitly relied on. and Mr. Hall doe* not appear to hav- made nay enquiry if tha boy's story were true. On the Other hand, he O'-cojil *d it in i'* entirety a* gospel, mid on the ••.,» being handed over to the German Gon-ul he pens an indignant letter. A* to the iheritt of the cone we lire not in -i position to judge. Thi* isnuly the I'oy's expert* UatcmCnf ftirnf-hed thr.mgh Mr. Hull under peouliar circumstances and without enquiry. Little reliance can be placed upon a black boy’* estimate of time, und I woul I not lie surprised if the hoy iind works I. according to his mn s'liremeut. 'Jo year*. No doubt it is highly nece*rary *’»« t some p irsou should be appointed to insivert private gaols, and I hsoe no d- nb» but ilmt the German Gonsul-Oeneml is both aide and willing to * zert Ins authority to see Unit labour boys are not tieated in oninhuman m-inner, and u«»t brutally punished without cause.—l am, ete , Scarric

["Scepth" seems ijjnorsnt of tb manner labour Uiy« reckon their tint*. All imporfel laUetr unb»r contract ««n toll almost t" a day the expiration of th<>ir «:i^'iir' , 'n«'iit. —Ki> ST ]