WHITE OR BLACK LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8077, 5 April 1906, Page 3

WHITE OR BLACK LABOR.

! :—* , , . NORTHERN AUSTBAEIA'S PROBLEM.' A QUESTION OP WAGES. Eeoeived 4,11.80 p.m. Bbisbane, April 4 • Mr Kidston, the Premier of| Queens. land,, lays . the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the question . of black labor is expected to furnish the Government/with accurate and reliable data concerning the proposed deportation of Kanakas, and the still more important matter of the aoaroity or otherwise of white labor . The subject was a difficult one, involving large expense, but, as the Federal Government, passed the Black Labor Bill, they, and not Queensland, will have to meet the difficulty and r the expense* - The question of white, labor for the, Bttjjar industry,was only one of wages . Whites would do tho work* if the wages were good enough. KANAKA DEPORTATION QUESTION. TESTIMONY OF AN INSPECTOR. Received 5, 1.11 a.ir. BCKDABEBG, April-1. Mr Caulfield, assistant Immigration Polynesian inspector, gave evidence before the Colored Labor Commission that it would be inhuman in some cues to land nati-es on their own islands, as they had lost tonch with their own people." Some of the islanders were indifferent regarding the deportations, but others were keenly resentful. He had learned authentically that the Tanna 10/s had determined, if they were deported, to murder every white man on Tanna island. He „ was.confident..some would have to be forcibly deported.