SAMOAN AFFAIRS.
INDENTURED LABOR AND COST OF LIVING. Sir James Allen, Minister for External AHairs. referring to the indentured labor question in Samoa, stated thai if the members of the Parliamentary Labor Party were prepared to allow the Samoan plantations to go back to nature, it >vould be as well for them to say what they would do in regard t;/ the supplies of necessary unifies of food that come from the' Pacific Islands. Everybody wanted these things—cocoanut oil, and other by-products—for margarine, oil cake, etc., rubber, cocoa, sugar tea. etc., hut if the supply of labor was to be cut off these articles must necessarily also cease to be supplied. There was also the supply of rice in Fiji. What would be the effect on the cost of living generally of such a policy? Certain of the Island products we must have, and unless production was developed we must suffer.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1920, Page 6
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151SAMOAN AFFAIRS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1920, Page 6
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