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to South Africa. Also the services of the Registrar-
-General to receive repatriated labourers and to arrange
for their return to their homes and also in dealing with
labourers' remittances sent from the Transvaal".
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Before the Officers concerned
were communicated with, Mr. Cowan who at that time was
employed with Lieutenant Wells, R.N., by the Transvaal
Government in doing the work which it was proposed to
assign to the Harbour Master and Registrar-General,
furnished at my request detailed particulars of the duties
to be performed in a letter dated 31st. March, 1905, copy
enclosed.
This letter apparently forms the
basis of paragraph 5 of the Memorial, but the mention of
some of the work entailed upon the Registrar-General is
omitted. At first the emigration was carried on both from
Hongkong end from North China. After a short time the
emigration from Hongkong was, as described by the Harbour
Master, discontinued.
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3.
As regards the comments made by
Commander Basil Taylor on the amount of extra work cast
upon the Harbour Master and Emigration Officer and on the
Registrar-General respectively, it is of course obvious
that
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