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more to the question of hired labour, this commenced under the auspices of Mi Austin who established his Head
Quarters here
from
its being
a central
station having his branch establishments
not vir
a
at Cautor, duatóir and Away, - I
position to know whecker the Emigrants collected as those places were conveyed before Chinese Officials prior to being forwarded to the princijal Depêt for embarstation but am
of opiniend
were not On avival hee
that they they signed their contracts which ward
witnessed by me,
had the nature of
them explained and received advance
chem
frome
their homes and who as
rule sold them cloches Vi
I
for
the
anjager.
· presume that foreign Government secing the successful introduction of Chinese labour into our West Indian
Colonies thought they would encoura
ucourage the system in their own
possessions, and the Reverend It Lobscheid a geneteimaw achose long residence in China suissionary mastes him peculiarly fittor for the office of an Agent for Emigration purposes being then at home agspears to have offered a favorable
for entering into
as
favourable opportunity
an
arrangement by which
should be obtained.
required Toward the end of last
the labour re
of wages which
generally ave
went into the
impamid
hands of the Chinese who had accom,
ear Mus
year
Lobscheid called on me and explained)