After completing labour contracts in Noumea, where they have been engaged over varying terms of years on estates mining and making roads, a large party of Javanese natives are returning to their homeland by the Roggeveen, which arrived at Auckland from Eastern ports recently. Many of the men have with them their wives and families, who live in after quarters of the ship. Dressed in all manner of scanty and gaudy clothes, the 150 natives are not allowed to set foot ashore in New Zealand. This is the second party to pass through the Dominion within two months, the former numbering about 500. It is said there are still about 7500 Javanese engaged in various works in Noumea,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1939, Page 9
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