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No. 3.
PERIAL CONFERENCE SECRETARIN
4057
Governmen House,
3
Hongkong, 6th. January, 1908.
My Lord,
With reference to your Despatch
No. 261 of the 29th. November last, I have the honour to
inform Your Lordship that the statement in the Colonial
Secretary's letter to the Government of India to the
effect that Indians of good physique, and with a slight
knowledge of English, have no difficulty in obtaining
employment in Canada/
was based upon reports which he
considered to be undoubtedly authentic (having been
obtained through men of senior standing in the Indian
Contingent of the Hongkong Police).
2.
This Government has of course no
knowledge of the conditions of the labour market on the
Western Sea-board of Canada. It was, however,
Vestern
admissible
to assume that, although there might be no sufficient
field for the employment of the Indians already in the
country, the majority of whom, as suggested by Mr. May in
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