# (ii.) Male Emigration
(Table V.)
The number of assisted emigrants presented for examination was 31,087 as against 24,986 in 1910 and the number passed was 24,605 compared with 23,554 in 1910. These numbers again include labourers going to British North Borneo who though technically not assisted emigrants are treated as such. The number of those examined who refused to go has risen considerably from 179 or 0.7 per cent. in 1910 to 1,236 or 3.6 per cent in 1911; and the total number rejected including refusals rose from 1,727 in 1910 to 4,166 (including refusals) in 1911, or 6,482 - 24,605 + 31,087 = 6,482.
The difference between the total number presented for examination and the number allowed to proceed is about 9,500, of which number it appears from the Table as if only 4,000 odd can be accounted for. The discrepancy is however due to the fact that large numbers of emigrants who express their willingness to go abroad at the first examination change their minds afterwards and do not come up again, and that many who are rejected or have passed the first examination for one port begin the process afresh for another port; and so appear twice—or even more often—in the total of "emigrants presented".
280 assisted emigrants were returned from Singapore and elsewhere as unfit for work, and were sent back to their homes.
The demand for labour in the Malay Peninsula has not been so brisk, most contracts through the Singapore depôt having been signed for Dutch Possessions. The agencies formed in the Malay Peninsula in 1910 have had no influence at the Hongkong end, and labour is still recruited through the old channels. The number of assisted emigrants passed rose from 23,554 in 1910 to 24,605 in 1911, the number going to the Straits Settlements and Malay Peninsula being 16,129 as against 18,177 in 1910; to the Dutch Indies 4,810 against 3,577, and to Borneo 3,666 against 1,800.
One case (typical of the difficulties, due chiefly to the coolies' own stupidity and docility, which have to be contended with) of the swindling of four assisted emigrants and the Company in Perak to which they were assigned by a recruiter attached to a Hongkong Boarding House was discovered. The master of the Boarding House was started in business by a Rubber Company in Perak, and received a large advance for recruiting labour for that Company. The four coolies mentioned were recruited by one Lam Sam attached to the Kwong Wai Yun Boarding House and passed the ordinary examination at this office, having, as it later appeared, been induced by Lam Sam to consent to emigrate by the promise of a present of money on arrival in Singapore; and a draft on a Singapore shop was shown them to quiet their suspicions. On arrival in Singapore, however, it was found that there was no
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(ii.)-Male Emigration.
(Table V.)
The number of assisted emigrants presented for examination was 31,087 as against 24,986 in 1910 and the number passed was 24,605 compared with 23,554 in 1910. These numbers again include labourers going to British North Borneo who though technically not assisted emigrants are treated as such. The num- ber of those examined who refused to go has risen considerably from 179 or 0.7 per cent. in 1911 to 1,236 or 36 per. cent in 1911; and the total number rejected including refusals rose from 1,727 in 1910 to 4,166 in 1911.
The difference between the total number presented for examina- tion and the number allowed to proceed is about 9,500, of which number it appears from the Table as if only 4,000 odd can be accounted for. The discrepancy is however due to the fact that large numbers of emigrants who express their willingness to go abroad at the first examination change their minds afterwards and do not come up again, and that many who are rejected or have passed the first examination for one port begin the process afresh for another port; and so appear twice-or even more often-in the total of "emigrants presented".
280 assisted emigrants were returned from Singapore and elsewhere as unfit for work, and were sent back to their homes.
The demand for labour in the Malay Peninsula has not been so brisk, most contracts through the Singapore depôt having been signed for Dutch Possesions. The agencies formed in the Malay Peninsula in 1910 have had no influence at the Hongkong end, and labour is still recruited through the old channels. The num- ber of assisted emigrants passed rose from 23,554 in 1910 to 21,605 in 1911, the number going to the Straits Settlements and Malay Peninsula being 16,129 as against 18,177 in 1910; to the Dutch Indies 4,810 against 3,577, and to Borneo 3,666 against 1,800.
One case (typical of the difficulties, due chiefly to the coolies' own stupidity and docility, which have to be contended with) of the swindling of four assisted emigrants and the Company in Perak to which they were assigned by a recruiter attached to a Hongkong Boarding House was discovered. The master of the Boarding House was started in business by a Rubber Company in Perak, and received a large advance for recruiting labour for that Company. The four coolies mentioned were recruited by one Lam Sam attached to the Kwong Wai Yun Boarding House and passed the ordinary examination at this office, having, as it later appeared, been induced by Lam Sam to consent to emigrate by the promise of a present of money on arrival in Singapore; and a draft on a Singapore shop was shown them to quiet their suspicions. On arrival in Singapore, however, it was found that there was no
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