GOVERNING SAMOA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1919, Page 5

GOVERNING SAMOA.

INDENTURED LABOR QUESTION. < EXPLAINED BY SIR J. ALLEtf, ■ By Telegraph.—Press Association.. ,1 Christchurch, Last Night, i Sir James Allen told a reporter that active steps were being takdn M substitute civil for military administak' tion in Samoa. They were anticipate big the mandate by removing the garrison and replacing them by police. . = "We are issuing a circular to all nitrai papers about indentured labor," saidßii James. '"There is a great misunder* standing about the position. When wi took over there were 3000 Chinese •« Solomon Islanders, and we introduced none at all during our They have gone down now, by repatri* tion, to 1000, and we have been hopjnj against hope that we might induce th Samoans to keep the plantations goto) but it is impossible for them to do at The result is that there are 1000 in; dentured laborers there. We did .'at iiring them in, but it is imr-cwibh I keep the plantations up, and some::) Ihem will go to ruin unless something done. White men cannot work th*j on the fields, nor can the SanWM themselves undertake sustained WW The only people that seem to undflrtrt it arc the Chinese and Solomon J5 landers. Inm \>ery, anxious that BUB hers of Parliament should go down M lee for themselves. Colonel Logan IWI down with the idea that he migkt I able to dispense with indentured labo and he found from practical experica it could not be done." Sir James ASt added that he hoped a. Parliament*! party would go as soon as possible aty the New Year to learn the conditio? of things before next session. .\