, 1908-10-10

District (Sojtzer) said, that tn,s IHterpella-
ton also speaks for Itself, and he could to-
fer to the remarks to it. 1t is a worry to
al planters, first to get la ourers for estate
work, and then 10 see how they break the
contracts and leave the work u~ncompleted
Just as it is most needed all of us suffer,
particularly when we have yearly contractsj
from his estate they leave and so to other
estates, employ themselves and get q vances
en- places i'll Westtnd quarter or some other
parts; if YOU report it to the Police, you are
told that the people can not be found; you
sci to work, and find them at times the
new employ er refuses to allow them to go
or even to admit they are there with him
hereby they transgrees the law, and shoGld
be punished but now comes, that II YOU
even bring the people before the Court, you
are summoned to appear III Court Gu a par
ticular day, you leave your wcrk and RppeaTi
but then you are told that the peol IL have
not come, sometimes because the Police
have not summon ed them at al and if, at
last, YOU get the cases settled and the IA
Dturels re told to come back to Their work
they do not do it, but roam about, and after
all you get nothing, The instance men
toned in the Remarks 10 one OF many, OF
the man who worked on Rattan, aud after
being brought up was allowed by the Police
to go and work out the week before lie
could letuln to him (Syitzer). But now,
if we can't get OF keep labourers, not even
immigrants, who YOU have pad for. for
these otteutimes so TO West End and cave
again at once, how are we to cultivate the
estate and how 10 pay taxes and wages, how
are we to exist? il IS theref re he would,
in the interests Of the general pub.lc, ask
Government if The Police are bound to up
hold LaboW Contracts with Estates Ha
would beg to add. l lave a @ ng-well
in Danish = Jeg har tn brsiemt Foielss
af, al Politiet rtrer willie mod mig, og Jeg
synes ikke,a Diet Dor we're 81 ,lige>om PoIlti-
mcstelen like hor gore mig til SElve for
size daarlige Vittigheder; og der er Mango
foruden mig, der har sagt at do har det
1ndtryk.
Scimiegtl W, Nicl4en. Skooch had Left
the Assembly.
The Gorc,nor said. Before answering the
honorable Members question, 1 will admit
that the hnrd times and the often uhsa'isiac-
tory state Of the labor relat ons may aturaliy
account for some bitterness of feeling. The
quest OF, whether it is he duty of the Police
to assist in the proper carrying out of the
labor contracts, 1 must answer with, Yes"
it is the duty o: the Police under the exist
ing law, whenever compliant is maze, to see.
to the best of their ability, that tie labor
contacts work as well as possible; 1t goes
without saying, that the Police arc there not
ONLY to Look alter the inter, SITS of the planter
but just rs well to p otect the interests OF
the lnbourers. In tle remarks accompany
ing the Iutelpellation, the honourable Mem
Der complains that The Police oftentimes let
the labouters go unpunished, even if proof
Of their guilt has been produced to this
may say, that it is always to some extent q
question of judgment what is proof, and
what is not the policemaster might be right
or may be wrong in his Judgment. and the
honorable Member may be wrong or right
in his, and l think l am justified in so far
giving the policemaster the benefit OF the
doubt.-The Lonourable Member next COM
plains that 2 vagabonds who had broken into
his House at "Ache's Garden" were only
sentenced to pay 81 each to this | may say
that breaking inio a house does not neces-
sarily constitute burglary, altogether may
tell the bonourab.e Member, what l have
often told MY old friend Nr. Svitzer private-
", that whenever n man is not satisfied with
the finding If a subordinate Court, his only
proper and effective remedy is an appeal to q
superior Court neither the Legislature nor
the Executive, neither the Colonial Council