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The registration and photographing of assisted emigrants have again proved a practical success, and it is now well known throughout the Kwongtung Province that missing men who have gone abroad as assisted emigrants, can generally be traced through this office, and redeemed if required.
During the year there were 52 applications for assistance in securing the return of relatives who had emigrated. Of the 55 men concerned, 39 had gone to Singapore, 9 to British North Borneo, and the remaining 7 to the Dutch Indies. 36 men returned and were restored to their relatives, 2 refused to return, 3 had absconded, in one case the relatives decided not to proceed with redemption, and 13 have not yet been traced.
The expenses incurred in repatriating emigrants are now fairly constant: from the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States $35, from British North Borneo $90, and from the Dutch Indies $60 (Hongkong Currency) respectively.
Relatives of emigrants who come to this office to make enquiries are numerous, and are usually content with the information we can give them as to the whereabouts of the missing men and the terms of the labour contract under which they are working.
The returns of the assisted emigrants arriving in Singapore from Swatow, Hoihow and Pakhoi for 1911 have not yet reached this office, but a monthly return of the number of contracts to labour in each particular locality signed by Hongkong "unpaid passengers" has been furnished by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs at Singapore.
The total number of contracts signed according to these returns, between December 1910 and December 1911 was as follows:-
Straits Settlements ... 1,271 Federated Malay States ... 1,793 British North Borneo ... 761 Sarawak ... 104 Malay Peninsula (Johore and New States) ... 3,699 Dutch Possessions ... 6,455 Assam ... 14,083The licence of one Boarding House which attempted to detain assisted emigrants in the house against their will and refused to assist the Emigration Sergeant in making enquiries, was cancelled. Two other Boarding Houses were struck off the register for recruiting shop boys, apprentices and other unsuitable emigrants.
Forty-three (43) hotel licences (2 new) and 61 licences (21 new) to keep Boarding Houses for assisted emigrants were issued. The former had accommodation for 3,946 boarders, and the latter for ...
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The registration and photographing of assisted emigrants have again proved a practical success, and it is now well known through- out the Kwongtung Province that missing men who have gone abroad as assisted emigrants, can generally be traced through this office, and redeemned if required.
During the year there were 52 applications for assistance in securing the return of relatives who had emigrated. Of the 55 men concerned, 39 had gone to Singapore, 9 to British North Borneo, and the remaining 7 to the Dutch Indies. 36 men returned and were restored to their relatives, 2 refused to return, 3 bad abscond- ed, in one case the relatives decided not to proceed with redemption, and 13 have not yet been traced.
The expenses incurred in repatriating emigrants are now fairly constant: from the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States $35, from British North Borneo $90, and from the Dutch Indies $60 (Hongkong Currency) respectively.
Relatives of emigrants who come to this office to make en- quiries are numerous, and are usually content with the information we can give them as to the whereabouts of the missing men and the terms of the labour contract under which they are working.
The returns of the assisted emigrants arriving in Singapore from Swatow. Hoihow and Pakhoi for 1911 have not yet reached this office, but a monthly return of the number of contracts to labour in each particular locality signed by Hongkong "unpaid passen- gers" has been furnished by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs at Singapore.
The total number of contracts signed according to these returns, between December 1910 and December 1911 was as follows:-
Straits Settlements
Federated Malay States
British North Borneo
Sarawak
Assam...
...
+
...
+
1,271
•
1,793
761
104
Malay Peninsula (Johore and New States). 3,699 Dutch Possessions
6,455
14,083
The licence of one Boarding House which attempted to detain assisted amigrants in the house against their will and refused to assist the Emigration Sergeant in making enquiries, was cancelled. Two other Boarding Houses were struck off the register for recruit- ing shop boys, apprentices and other unsuitable emigrants.
Forty-three (43) hotel licences (2 new) and 61 licences (21 new) to keep Boarding Houses for assisted emigrants were issued. The former had accommodation for 3,946 boarders, and the latter for
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