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No. 128.
COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.
[Answered by No. 132.]
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your
Downing Street, 30 June, 1913. letter of the 13th of June, 1913, enclosing a copy of certain papers received from the Foreign Office relative to the proposed amalgamation of the Surinam Agency with the British Colonial Emigration Agencies at Calcutta.
2. I am to suggest, for the consideration of the Marquess of Crewe, that before communicating with the four Colonies concerned in the sense desired by the Nether- lands Government, it might be well to ascertain from Mr. McNeill and Mr. Chimman Lal whether, in the light of their recent visit to Surinam, they are disposed to regard the proposed amalgamation of the Dutch and British Agencies at Calcutta with favour.
3. Mr. Harcourt would suggest that Mr. McNeill and his colleague should also be asked to explain fully the reasons for any views which they may have formed upon this subject, and to submit a confidential statement of their impressions of the condition of the British immigrants in Surinam, which would doubtless contain the gist of any formal report in regard to the Dutch Colony which they have it in mind
to furnish.
I am, &c.,
HENRY LAMBERT,
for the Under-Secretary of State.
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SIR,
No. 129.
THE GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION AGENT AT CALCUTTA FOR TRINIDAD, &c., to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 14 July, 1913.) [Answered by No. 131.]
21, Garden Reach, Calcutta, June 26th, 1913. IN acknowledging the receipt of your letter No. 13173/1913, of the 24th May,† addressed to Mr. Gibbes and myself, on the proposals for amalgamation now under consideration, I have the honour to invite your attention to Mr. Harcourt's decision that I shall make my headquarters at the up-country depôt for one year at any rate, and in the concluding part of the letter it is suggested that I should live in an hotel in Fyzabad.
2. In my former letter, reporting on Fyzabad, I think I should have made it clear that in Fyzabad there are no hotels, the only accommodation open to wayfarers being the Dâk Bungalow, which only admits of three people staying in it at one time, and the occupants are liable to be called on to leave at twenty-four hours' notice if their room is required for new comers. During the time that I was in Fyzabad engaged in my enquiries, the adjoining room to that which I occupied in the Dâk Bungalow was taken by some members of a travelling entertaining company, who had with them a number of performing cats and dogs, and the proximity of these people, who overflowed on to the verandah, which is common property, was most unpleasant. The Dâk Bungalow is also available to native officials, if they require accommodation when travelling.
If the Secretary of State wishes the Agency up country to be opened and con- ducted as an Agency, I presume it is also his wish that the Agent who is to reside there should live in a manner befitting his station in life, and in keeping with that of the Indian Officials residing there, with whom he will be brought into contact.
3. Fyzabad is a native city, and is not laid out for the temporary accommo- dation of Europeans, being unknown to the passing globe-trotter, and is not equipped with electric current for the supply of fans and lights like many of the towns in
† No. 121.
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