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Indian children, conducted by persons who can speak their language, the immi- grants who have been in the island for a long time being encouraged to send their children to the general schools. In localities where it is found that there attendance of children of East Indian parents at the general school, the experiment a fair of teaching Hindustani as suggested would be well worth trying, and ought to be an inducement to other parents to send their children to that school. In this way, the necessity of establishing special schools for East Indian children, or, in the alternative, allowing them to grow up in ignorance, may be met.
P. G. Duff,
7 November, 1913.
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No. 187.
Acting Protector of Immigrants
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Enclosure 3 in No. 187.
Secretary of State to Viceroy, Commerce and Industry Department, dated 30th December, 1913. TELEGRAM.
My telegram of 25th November. Your despatch, dated 11th December, No. 85. Colonial Emigration Agents. Please see papers forwarded with my Public Secre- tary's letter, dated 28th November last, and as far as possible act accord- ingly. Colonial Office would not object to any or all necessary notifications being dealt with by executive instructions without gazetting.
44960
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 31 December, 1913.)
No. 188. JAMAICA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 31 December, 1913.)
L.F.]
(Confidential.)
SIR,
[topy to Emigration Agent at Calcutta for British Guiana, &c., 6 January, 1914.
India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W.,
30th December, 1913.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Lambert's letters of the 21st November and 5th December, Nos. 39636 and 41127,* on the subject of the alterations in the Colonial Emigration Agencies in India,, and the consequent changes in the appointments of Emigration Agents, and in reply to forward, for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, copy of the correspondence noted in the margin, from which will be seen that the Government of India have been asked to take action as far as possible in the direction suggested by Mr. Harcourt.
To Government of India, Telegram, 25th November.
To Government of India, 28th November. To Government of India, Telegram, 30th December.
I have, &c.,
Enclosure 1 in No. 187.
T. W. HOLDERNESS.
SECRETARY OF STATE to VICEROY, Commerce and Industry Department, 25th
November, 1913.
Colonial Office request that Gibbes and Doorly should be placed in a position to proceed at once at Madras with recruitment of indentured labour to comply with requisition from Fiji. Please take such measures as may be necessary. Papers will follow.
DEAR ENTHOVEN,
Enclosure 2 in No. 187.
From Colonial Office, 21st November, with Enclosure
The Secretary of State will probably on the general question in due course.
WITH reference to the correspondence ending with the Secretary of State's
India Office, Whitehall, S. W., 28 November, 1913.
telegram of the 25th instant, I forward, for information, copy of the paperst noted in the margin, on the subject of Colonial address the Government of India further Emigration Agents in India.
Yours sincerely,
The Secretary to the Government of India,
Commerce and Industry Department.
M. Č. SETON, Secretary, Judicial and Public Department.
King's House, Jamaica, 13th December, 1913. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential despatch of the 31st October last,* calling my attention to the fact that your Confidential despatch of 31st December, 1912, on the subject of the proposed insertion in contracts of service of East Indian immigrants of a clause respecting penal liabili- ties, still remains unanswered.
2. In reply, I have the honour to invite reference to my open despatch, No. 465, dated the 13th instant. As it will be necessary to await the full report of the Commissioners in regard to their recommendations respecting modifications of the existing immigration laws as affecting the penal liabilities of coolies I do not propose that such amendments should be drafted until a final decision as to their desired form can be ascertained.
The memorandum presented by Mr. McNeill as the "personal view" of the Commissioner may undergo some considerable modification as the result of further enquiries in the course of the visit of the Commission to other Colonies.
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No. 189.
I have, &c.,
W. H. MANNING,
Governor.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 1st January, 1914.)
[Answered, 15th January, 1914, by 20 in Miscellaneous No. 299.] (Confidential.)
India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W.`
31st December, 1913.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Marquess of Crewe to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, that he has consulted the Government of India on the suggestion made in Mr. Read's letter of the 22nd ultimo, No. 39902.§ The Govern- ment of India, however, are doubtful whether any great advantage would be gained by the visit to Assam of Mr. McNeill and Mr. Chimman Lal, and, while they would be glad to meet Mr. Harcourt's wishes, they feel that the step proposed might very well give rise to misunderstanding as regards the local labour question in Assam. It has been definitely announced that the introduction of indentured labour into that Province will be withdrawn in July, and it is most desirable to avoid any action that might be taken to imply that the question is being reopened.
• Nos. 170 and 175.
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• Reminder.
↑ No. 97.
‡ No. 186.
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