etc., were cancelled. It is this class of house which gives emigration a bad name. Its agents hang about public places in Canton and other big towns, and are unscrupulous in the means they use to induce men to emigrate. Two other boarding-houses were warned.
Two further licences were cancelled at the end of the year, on account of an attempt on the part of the boarding house agents to defraud emigrants to Borneo out of a portion of their advance.
Forty-five (45) hotel licences (4 new) and 61 licences for boarding house for Assisted Emigrants (32 new) were issued. The former had accommodation for 3,869 boarders, and the latter had 2,511. 19 duplicate licences were issued for removal of premises or transfer of names. The number of houses holding licences at the end of the year was, hotels 43, boarding houses 60, and 3 more applications for boarding house licences for Assisted Emigrants were then under consideration.
In case of necessity, emigrants can be examined on Government holidays on payment of a fee.
REGULATION OF CHINESE
Ordinance No. 3 of 1888.
(i.)-Registration of Householders.
Two thousand and eighty-five (2,085) householders were registered; 61 of these were first registration. 7,034 changes in respect of tenants were registered. The law was more vigorously enforced during the year and 15 persons were charged with failure to notify changes of tenancy. (Table XXII.)
This Office is asked to enquire into the validity of Chinese who offer themselves as sureties to other Government Departments, if they are in business in Victoria or Old Kowloon. The number of sureties reported on during the year was 1,163.
(ii)-District Watchmen.
(Table VI.)
The District Watchmen Committee met ten times; the average attendance being between eight and nine members. Mr. Ng Hon-tsz was appointed to take the place of the late Mr. Choa Leep Chee, Mr. Tong Lai-chün was re-appointed on the expiry of his term of office. Mr. Chan Chun-tsün resigned, and the vacancy has not yet been filled.
The balance to the credit of the Fund at the close of the year was $9,188 as against $10,910 on the 31st December, 1909. The Committee are therefore spending about $1,700 more than their income, but it is always possible to stop recruiting.
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etc., were cancelled. It is this class of house which gives emigration a bad name. Its agents hang about public places in Canton and other big towns, and are unscrupulous in the means, they use to induce men to emigrate. Two other boarding-houses were warned.
Two further licences were cancelled at the end of the year, on account of an attempt on the part of the boarding house agents to defraud emigrants to Borneo out of a portion of their advance.
Forty-five (45) hotel licences (4 new) and 61 licences for board- ing house for Assisted Emigrants (32 new) were issued. The former had accommodation for 3,869 boarders, and the latter had 2,511. 19 duplicate licences were issued for removal of premises or transfer of names. The number of houses holding licences at the end of the year was, hotels 43, boarding houses 60, and 3 more applications for boarding house licences for Assisted Emigrants were then under consideration.
In case of necessity, emigrants can be examined on Government holidays on payment of a fee.
REGULATION OF CHINESE.
Ordinance No. 3 of 1888.
(i.)-Registration of Householders.
Two thousand and eighty-five (2,085) householders were register- ed; 61 of these were first registration. 7,034 changes in respect of tenants were registered. The law was more vigorously enforced during the year and 15 persons were charged with failure to notify changes of tenancy. (Table XXII.)
This Office is asked to enquire into the validity of Chinese who offer themselves as sureties to other Government Departments, if they are in business in Victoria or Old Kowloon. The number of sureties reported on during the year was 1,163.
(ii)-District Watchmen.
(Table VI.)
The District Watchmen Committee met ten times; the average attendance being between eight and nine members. Mr. Ng Hon- tsz was appointed to take the place of the late Mr. Choa Leep Chee, Mr. Tong Lai-chün was re-appointed on the expiry of his term of office. Mr. Chan Chun-tsün resigned, and the vacancy has not yet been filled.
The balance to the credit of the Fund at the close of the year was $9,188 as against $10,910 on the 31st December, 1909. The Committee are therefore spending about $1,700 more than their in- come, but it is always possible to stop recruiting.
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