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tween the coast ports and Rabgkok and Saigon.
engaged in this business comes of course under the Asiatic
migration Ordinance, which defines Chinese Passenger Bhips
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ships carrying from Hongkong and all British shiq02 carrying from any port in China more than 20 Asiatic passenger
Foreign Teasels taking coolies to these destinations on the
other band are independent of the Bri ti sh regulations, being
bound solely by their own national rules. His Majesty's Coni
at Swatow informs me that the present custom is for such TEDBE
to be measured by the British Jurveyor attached to His Majesty
Consulate (thoug): there is nothing to prevent foreign muthor-
Letak from ansainting their own surveyor if by so doing they can benefit their own shipping) an similar lines to those
applied to Bri tich vessels, save that the latter are not all on
ed so many weather deck passengers and indeed during the
typhoon season are debarred from carrying any, He quotes the
case of the A. 3. "Rajaburi* whose bangkok cumplement when she
the became/british 5. 6. "Chaochowfu" was reduced to 1142 se spainat
12:36 when under the German flag, the differencatbeing in re9-
pect of weather deck passengers, whom moreover under Germah
rules she was at liberty to carry all the year round. It will
then be seen that British ships in this trade are already at a
considerable disadvantage (involving the the above case a
handicap of 7% for 8 months of the year and 37% in the four
mon the typhoon senson) compared with their foreign competitbød
and I consider it is beyond question that if their complemen te
we to be further reduced by logislation which will not touch forsign ships, British shipping will be forced to close down
altogether on the Bangkok and Saigon runs.
Moreover whilst it is admittedly unfortunate that such discrepancies as have been instanged should exist, it would appear that they are to some extent unavoidable, since the measurement figures must to some extent depend on the opinion
of the individual surveyor as to the nature of the component
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