KANAKA LABOUR.
(by electric telegraph.—copyright.) London, May 26. In a blue book issued on the employment of Kanaka labour in Queensland, Lord Charles Scott, Admiral on the Australian station, admits that the regulations regarding the traffic which were adopted in 1884 are, if strictly enforced, sufficient to prevent a recurrence of the abuses that formerly existed in connection with che employment of coloured labour in Queensland. Mr Kinnard Rose, in a long and able letter, copies of which have been sent to every member of the House of Commons, states that it is impossible to urge a word against the traffic since 1886, and that the charges of white people having committed outrages on Kanaka women are wicked slanders. He quotes from the Eev. Alex. Smith's testimony as to the kind treatment of the Kanakas. Mr Hose attributes the opposition to the renewal of the traffic to wire pulling by the members of the new unionism.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3100, 28 May 1892, Page 3
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156KANAKA LABOUR. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3100, 28 May 1892, Page 3
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