KANAKA LABOUR
(BY RMtCTRIC mKOBAPII-COl'YniClll). Loxnox, Jumiary o. Sir Arthur Gordo.v, formerly High Commissioner in the Western Pacific, in a letter to the Times, favours Indian ! coolies being employed in Queensland instead of Kanakas, since recruiting deranges and ultimately destroys the commercial village life of the Pacific Islands, resulting in the extinclion of j the Islanders. He declares that when ' the supply of labour dwindles the colonists are not likely to prove too watchful over abuses.
In reply to a correspondent who wrote to him on the subject, the Marv quis of Kipon, Colonial Secretiny, insisted that the Kanaka traffic in the South Sea Islands was continued under a system which rendered abuses impossible, and lie declined to make representations to the Queensland Government on the matter.
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Waikato Times, Issue 3204, 7 January 1893, Page 2
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127KANAKA LABOUR Waikato Times, Issue 3204, 7 January 1893, Page 2
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