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means of securing that the emigrants are
properly treated in the lands to which they
It is true that Contract Emigration has been allowed from the Straits Settlements to the Netherlands Indies, but the
close proximity of Java and Sumatra to the Straits Settlements has justified an exception being made in this particular case.
4. The same reasoning would not apply to Hong Kong and I regret that I must adhere to the decision that contract emigration cannot be allowed from that Colony to foreign countries.
I have etc.,