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recruiter has promised work in Hongkong. There are numerous
ways of recruiting but they are 11 run on more or less the
same lines. The hoarding house in Hongkong generally keeps itself free from hlame, The ordinary cost to a boarding
house in Hongkong to obtain an emigrant varies between $8 to
15.
The houring house in Hongkong gets sume verying between $35 to $41 (Singapore currency) for coolies landed
in Singapore. (The boarding house here pays the parsegol (These are 1908 figures, the cost my have nor asad),
Under ordinary circumst: nees an emigrent who
12.
is unwilling or who is considered by the examining officer
unfit to proceed is sent to the Tuny a Hospital to be sent
home at the expense of the Boarding House.
15. Two kinds of boarding houses are mentioned in
the Byelaws Hotels and Soarding Houses for Assisted Emigrants 34 244. The Hotel provides for the ordinary per-
Bone with male and female passin, through Hongkong for
Singapore an: elsewhere.
*
All assisted Emigrants must be lodged in the
These ehou d
Boarding Houses for Assisted migrants
be kept under strict scrutiny. Free me e emigrants lodge **
there at times, they are generally connected in some way
with the assisted maig enta; this is permitted by the Byelaws.
There aerieted boarding houses are not generelly
themselves directly responsible for the freuds that occur.
Most of them have & direct connection with bowe district and
do very little business outside that. Most trouble arises
in these hoarding houses who deal with in youths, westers
and loafers from Cunton, Kaono, Fetchan sto, and they ought
to he treated with great severity. Shep ere reuponsible for
most of the unpopularity 2 this emigration.