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Issue Details: First known date: 1894... 1894 The First Kanakas
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Meston narrates how Captain Benjamin Boyd and Robert Towns brought the first Pacific Islanders to Queensland. He vehemently opposes the presence of Pacific Islander labourers, Chinese, Japanese, Javanese and Cingalese in the state.

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    y separately published work icon The Bulletin vol. 14 no. 749 23 June 1894 Z649362 1894 periodical issue 1894 pg. 24
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