Freightment
Z
Their
subjects when shipped
is Contract labourers to foreign countries
4 2. probably require ample arrangements
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from the Govts of those countries for
the fulfilment of their Contracts & for their return if they wished it to
their Native Land.
Foodgkins having mentioned
to me that they had sent large number
Chinese Contract labourers to Queensland, South Australia, & New Zealand, I enquired why he sought for Fresh hands in the comparatively narrow field of Japan, where population is by no means redundant & where The experiment had not been tried.
He replied that the Chinese labourers
were often troublesome & did not
keep their contracts & that he thought the Japanese were better labourers than the
Chinese, an
opinion which I, however,
do not share.
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The petition speaks, as all such projects normally do,
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of the great
advantages that wd be derived by Japan from the proposed scheme, the development of commercial relations which it wd ensure the wealth which The Emigrants wd acquire, & the earnestness
wd
desire of
The Japanese Govt to porter
much a project. I observed however to
aware that much
M. Fodgkins & M. Housman that I was not myself
a desire was entertained by the Japanese Govt & that the advantages