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Conveyance of deck passengers than at present exist.
The foreign ship owner may lend his vessels from Foochow, Amoy, or Swatow to the Straits Settlement's crowded with Chinese, the only check they receive being the very proper one that the Singapore Government imposes on the arrival of such vessels at any of their Ports.
The Penlyon's casualty could not occur with a vessel leaving Foochow, Amoy, Swatow or Hongkong for the Straits Settlements, as, during the only period of the year when the vessel would be allowed to carry deck passengers, she would have a fair wind.
While it would not be prudent to allow ships to leave Singapore for the North with deck passengers during the North East Monsoon, there could be no harm, and there certainly would be less risk of life attending vessels going South during that season of the year.
Hongkong
(Signed) W.G. Thomsett R.N.
Staff Harbour Master.
14th September 1876.