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Government House,
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Hongkong, 30th September, 1907.
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My Lord,
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I have the honour to acknowledge
Your Lordship's Despatch No. 165 of 2nd August, 1907,
relative to the presence of destitute British Indians in
Peru, and desiring me to take such action as may appear to
be necessary to prevent persons being induced by false
representations to emigrate from this Colony to Peru.
2.
There is no large body of British
Indians in this Colony from which emigrants could be
recruited. The Census return of 20th November, 1906,
gives the total British Indian population at 4,229 (an
increase of 322 on the previous year). Of this population
the males are employed in various ways in the Colony and
I am informed that there are few destitute Indians here.
3.
On receipt of Your Lordship's
Despatch under reply I enquired from the Consul for Peru
whether the Consular fee levied upon emigrants for Peru
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&c.
&c.
&c...
had