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attends all emigration matters at the present day and the strong competition for the traffic would prevent the existence of abuses.
The Governor of Hong Kong, who supports the proposal to allow such emigration, adds that at present coolies from Canton to the Dutch East Indies, instead of being slipped from Hong Kong pass through the Colony and go on to Swatow, where they are shipped in German vessels. This forminor's despatch is printer.
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The applications to Lord Bgm have also dealt with a minor point." The Consuls cannot give licences to a vessel carrying coolies on a voyage of more that thirty days' duration; such licences can only be given by the Governor. They ask that this limitation should be removed.
The distinction between voyages of more and voyages of less than 30 days dates back to the Ordinance of 1871, the original object having been, as already stated, to relieve the vessels regularly employed in a well conducted trade with neighbouring countries from some of the restrictions required in other cases,
The Governor concurs that the distinction (now clearly out of date, as many countries more than 30 days' voyage distant in 1871 would not be so now) should be abolished, and has submitted an Ordinance to allow the Governor to issue licences to carry contract emigrants to any desti- nation and to allow the Emigration Officers Chinese ports to issue licences to carry either free or contract emigrants on a voyage of any duration.
October 22, 1906.
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