Kwote 1886 from Mackay Plantation owner

A Mackay plantation owner, Harold Finch-Hatton, 1886, commented: “It has been conclusively proved … that white men cannot and will not do the work done by niggers in the field, and … that if white labour were available, it would only be at wages which the planters could never afford to pay. The sugar industry is entirely dependent upon coloured labour.” ~ Harold Finch-Hatton in 1886 quoted in Evans, Saunders & Cronin Source: eRace HREOC