@etherazer....Maybe this is what you are referring to:
The labour trade The trade in Pacific Islander labourers was formalised with the introduction of the Pacific Labourers Act 1880 (Queensland). This provided a monitoring system for labour vessels and indentured labour. It aimed to regulate and control the process to ensure paid labour for Islanders but maintained financial benefits of a slavery system. Essentially cheap labour was provided by coerced workers who could not resign. South Sea Islanders were restricted to working in the sugar industry by legislation that stated they had to work within a 30 mile limit from the coastline.
From The Queensland Historical Atlas. (No less) Read it. It is shameful.
