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sent back as being too young. In addition, one application was made for the return of a missing boy who, however, could not be traced; and one boy was sent back by the Straits Settlements Government.
10. Prosecutions under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance undertaken by this office numbered 6 with 4 convictions as compared with 6 cases and 1 conviction in 1915.
(ii.)—MALE EMIGRATION, (ASSISTED). (Table V.)
11. Assisted emigration this year reached a volume actually exceeding that attained before the war. The total number of assisted emigrants presented for examination was 25,357, of whom 17,665 were passed and allowed to proceed, compared with 7,618 and 5,764 in 1915. In 1913 the assisted emigrants who were passed numbered 16,951. The number of those who on examination expressed themselves as unwilling to emigrate was 204 or 0.80%, a slight increase on last year's figure of 0.62%. The total number rejected in Hongkong as unfit for labour was 378, all of whom were sent back to their homes through the Tung Wa Hospital at the expense of the Boarding Houses which recruited them. The most marked feature of assisted emigration is the great increase in the number of coolies going to Banka and Billiton compared with those going to Singapore. Emigration to Banka continued throughout the year; 5,019 coolies left Hongkong for that place. Emigration to Billiton proceeded from February to May and was resumed in December; the number of coolies leaving Hongkong was 3,241. This increase in the Dutch Indies emigration is offset by a decline in emigration to Singapore; compared with the figures of the last year preceding the war; this decline amounts to 3,384.
12. Assisted emigration to British North Borneo was again practically non-existent, only a batch of 20 being passed during the year.
13. During the year, at the request of the Fiji Government, which desired to prevent the importation of undesirables, the supervision and scrutiny of Chinese free emigration from Hongkong to Fiji was taken in hand. 204 emigrants, almost all adult males, but including a few women and children, were passed under the arrangement made with the Fiji Government.
14. No decrepit coolies from the Straits Settlements were dealt with, the Police having taken over this work.
15. 58 decrepits or destitute repatriates were sent back from Sandakan and 62 from Jesselton as compared with 252 and 72 respectively in 1915. 44 coolies, decrepit or declared unfit for work on arrival, were sent back from the wolfram mines at Tavoy through Penang. One of the Tavoy coolies absconded while...
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sent back as being too young. In addition, one application was made for the return of a missing boy who, however, could not be traced; and one boy was sent back by the Straits Settlements Government.
10. Prosecutions under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance undertaken by this office numbered 6 with 4 convictions as compared with 6 cases and 1 conviction in 1915.
(ii.)-MALE EMIGRATION, (ASSISTED). (Table V.)
11. Assisted emigration this year reached a volume actually exceeding that attained before the war. The total number of assisted emigrants presented for examination was 25,357, of whom 17,665 were passed and allowed to proceed, compared with 7,618 and 5,764 in 1915. In 1913 the assisted emigrants who were passed numbered 16,951. The number of those who on examina- tion expressed themselves as unwilling to emigrate was 204 or 80%, a slight increase on last year's figure of 62%. The total number rejected in Hongkong as unfit for labour was 378, all of whom were sent back to their homes through the Tung Wa Hospital at the expense of the Boarding Houses which recruited them. The most marked feature of assisted emigration is the great increase in the number of coolies going to Banka and Billiton compared with those going to Singapore. Emigration to Banka continued throughout the year; 5,019 coolies left Hongkong for that place. Emigration to Billiton proceeded from February to May and was resumed in December; the number of coolies leaving Hongkong was 3,241. This increase in the Dutch Indies emigra- tion is offset by a decline in emigration to Singapore; compared with the figures of the last year preceding the war; this decline amounts to 3,384,
12. Assisted emigration to British North Borneo was again practically non-existent, only a batch of 20 being passed during the year.
13. During the year, at the request of the Fiji Government, which desired to prevent the importation of undesirables, the supervision and scrutiny of Chinese free emigration from Hong- kong to Fiji was taken in hand. 204 emigrants, almost all adult males, but including a few women and children, were passed under the arrangement made with the Fiji Government.
14. No decrepit coolies from the Straits Settlements were dealt with, the Police having taken over this work.
15. 58 decrepits or destitute repatriates were sent back from Sandakan and 62 from Jesselton as compared with 252 and 72 respectively in 1915. 44 coolies, decrepit or declared unfit for work on arrival, were sent back from the wolfram mines at Tavoy through Penang. One of the Tavoy coolies absconded while
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