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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 26 February 1907, Page 3

"There have been nine thousand .Melan-'siaii labourers in Queensland o:i an average for a good many years: I'm""!' thousand itl' these have attended ilie mi-s:on m Queensland, and .six thousand have beefi outride the reach of . lu'-.- s.hools, and the lat-t<-r are probably a gieat deal wur-e . uow than they wen- when they \v--nt to Queensland," remarked ISi-hop Wil I sun. of Melanesia. to a represent!!live I tif the Lyltclton Times the other day, i "My opinion of the deportation oi tin Kanakas from Queensland, lie eoutinu- | j ed," is altogether diil'eivut from llie j opinion- which Aery often lind their ' way into print on the other side, and ' a?e repeated on this side. I eonside.- ' that, ttie deportation of the Kanaka is the best possible thing that coul-1 ■ happen, 'J'lie-e misleading paragraphs | are for toe most part inspired by nii'iij labor people. The Labor parry are ; supposed to have, caused the Kanakas ■ to he Bent back iu order to get a white Australia, and one argument used against the Labor party is that it is very inhumane to send the Kanakas hack to their own country, ait-1 a great deal of capital has been made of this."