Wawn, William T.

The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade

Honolulu The University Press of Hawaii 1973, First published in 1893. Edited, with an Introductionby Peter Corris. liii, 474pp. Frontis portrait, 63 illustrations. Bibliography, notes, index. Turquoise cloth. A very fine copy with dust jacket. This excellent reprint is well edited, and with a good introduction, by Peter Corris. Wawn was intimately involved in the Queensland labour trade. He recruited or repatriated island labourers in every area - the New Hebrides, the Solomons, New Britain, New Ireland, the New Guinea islands, the Gilberts, etc. His first hand account is basically a lengthy attempt to justify the displacement of the "Kanakas" to work in the plantations of Northern Queensland - where they provided a "class of labourers better able to endure the climate than Europeans, as well as to work at a cheaper rate."

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