Confidential Paper
34
No.
99
Confidential Paper.
10 May 1900
13242
No.
HONG KONG
8 Nov 9504.
(Subject.)
DESPATCH.
GEC7
292
RECO
Reef 15 APR 9
Contract Emigration to Sumatra.
Submit
Correspondence.
is Jardine Matheson & Co. and question
of its being permitted
Mr Lucas
circulation's
a-o
(Minutes.)
in Straits.
after protracted searches and
and vain endeavours to get at the material to minute this
paper.
without 8042/91
What paper has turned up in
has somehow in the Registry
The general ruling in that department
is against allowing contract emigration from Hong Kong to foreign countries. Sir Edward Wingfield
laid down
in 1870
and has been
since repeated.
The grounds on which this
ruling is based
are
that complaints necessarily
of ill treatment and
have been received
the coolie traffic will, HM Gov
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