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Date.
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116
161
To the Governors... Trinidad,,
93: Jamaica, 62;
1913.
March [11] [12].
Transmits a copy of No. 110
166
British
Gulana,
108
To the Government Telegram] February 12
Emigration Agent
at Calcutta for British Guiana.
109
Ditto
Telegram February 15
110
India Office
February 18
111
The Governor
Fiji, 1.
January 3 (Rec. Feb. 18.)
112
To India Office
February 20
113
To the Government
at Calcutta for
Emigration Agent
British Guiana.
February 20
114
India Office
February 26
115
To
ment Emigration
the Govern-
Agents at Cal-
March 11
Considers, with reference to No. 103, that it is absolutely necessary that the whole matter should be discussed with Mr. Marsden and states that, while some modifications may be accepted,
a full consideration and joint report must be insisted upon.
States that the points raised in No. 107 | 162
should be discussed with Mr. Marsden and should be dealt with in the joint report.
Transmits a copy of a telegram from the Government of India agreeing to pro- ceed with the establishment of an up-country agency and to postpone action for one year respecting the restriction of the area of recruiting and the method of remunerating the recruiters; concurs as regards the latter points.
162
Forwards, in reply to No. 80, a copy of 162
a minute by the Agent-General of Immigration enquiring exactly what kind of return is desired by the Indian Government, and states that he has authorised the Agent-General to communicate with the Protector of Emigrants, Calcutta, on the matter.
Transmits an extract from No. 107 deal- 163
ing with the question of recruiting labour in India for Surinam by the Dutch Agency; enquires whether the Foreign Office have communicated further as to the proposal that this recruiting should be effected by means of the Colonial Emigration Agencies, and, if not, whether any action can be taken to expedite consideration of the matter.
Acknowledges the receipt of Nos. 103 and 107 and confirms Nos. 108 and 109; comments on his view that the headquarters of the Emigration Agent who does not reside at Calcutta should be at Madras rather than at the up- country depôt, and informs him that it is not proposed to consider the question of introducing uniform con- ditions of service in the West Indies, at any rate until the visiting Com- missioners have reported.
Transmits a copy of correspondence with the Foreign Office on the proposal to effect recruiting for Surinam by means of the British Colonial Emi- gration Agencies, and states that enquiries are being made of the Foreign Office as to how the question standa.
Transmits a copy of No. 110
163
cutta.
43: Fiji, 75.
117
India Office
...
118
The Governor
Fiji, 101
119
The Government Emigration Agents at Calcutta.
March 25
February 27 '(Rec. April 16.)]
April 3 |(Rec. April 19.)
120
The
Government Emigration Agent at Calcutta for Trinidad, &c.
April 17 (Rec. May 3.)
120A To Crown Agents...
120B
Ditto
May 6
May 15
Transmite a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office stating that no reply has yet been received from the Netherlands Government respecting the proposed amalgamation of the Surinam and British Colonial Agencies at Calcutta, but that His Majesty's Minister has been instructed to renew his request for a reply.
Transmite, in reply to No. 95, a copy of a minute by the Agent-General of Immigration respecting Mr. Marsden's proposals; invites special attention to the comments in regard to the amal- gamation of the Madras Agency, and states that he shares the opinion that the recruiting of labourers for Fiji should not be restricted to the Southern Provinces of India,
Submits a joint report on measures to give effect to the amalgamation of the Agencies in Calcutta and Madras with memoranda and statistica respecting the main points of difference between them.
Reports upon the various sites or houses available at Fyzabad for an emigration depôt.
Forwards copies of various papers, from which it will be seen that the question of the general adoption of thymol or beta-naphthol treatment for ankylo- stome infection on coolieships has been revived by the Governments of British Guiana and Jamaica, and requests that these papers may be laid before the Sur- geons Superintendent at their meeting, with a request for a report.
167
167
169
183
184
Transmits a copy of No. 5 in Appendix 185
and suggests that the report enclosed therein should be laid before the Sur- geons Superintendent with the other papers enclosed in No. 120A.
164
121
To the Governinent
May 21
Emigration
Conveys decision of Secretary of State
upon Noe. 119 and 120.
186
Agents at Calcutta.
122
To India Office
May 31
Transmits copies of Nos. 119 and 121
188
123
To the Governors... Trinidad,
May 31
Transmita copies of Nos. 119 and 121
188
198:
and requests their views.
Jamaica,
166
148;
British
Guiana,
121;
Fiji, 182.
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