A noteworthy feature of this Emigration is the extremely favourable terms granted to the labourer.
An effort to induce the labourers to take their wives met with little or no response.
(c.) British Solomon Islands.-A few carpenters were recruited to work in these territories for Messrs. Lever's Pacific Plantations Ltd.
(d) Makatea.--An application from the (French) Government of Tahiti for Chinese assisted labourers to work for the Compagnie Francaise des Phosphates de L'Oceanie was approved. One shipment left in the month of May.
The whole of this South Sea Island emigration has been carried out through the agency of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., to whom is due an acknowledgment of their courtesy and readiness to meet the requirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance.
(e) Deli, Sumatra.-As the result of an application from the Deli Planters Association arrangements have been made for a regular flow of assisted labour to this port. This emigration, which, until his regrettable decease, was managed by Mr. Van Yzeren, promises in every way to uphold the good traditions of assisted emigration to the Dutch East Indies. The men are recruited from the Hoklo districts round Swatow, and efforts have been made, with considerable success, to induce wives to follow their husbands abroad. The first shipment for Deli left in the late autumn.
Owing to the scarcity of direct ships from Hongkong to Deli, these men are sometimes sent in British ships as far as Singapore, where arrangements have been made for their transhipment.
(f.) Cuba.-The relaxation of the restriction on Chinese immigration into Cuba, so as to enable the Cuban Government to discharge its obligations under the International Sugar Convention led to a rush of Chinese emigrants to Cuba. The Secretary of State has ruled that apart from old emigrants returning to Cuba, such emigration could not be permitted without the sanction of the Governments of China and Cuba. In the absence of any efforts on the part of the Government of Cuba to put the emigration on a regular footing the position is still unsatisfactory.
14. The total number of free emigrants to the Fiji Islands, who passed through this office was 42. They went in small parties at irregular intervals.
15. Fifteen (15) decrepits were returned from Singapore, one died at sea: the rest were sent back to their homes by the Tung Wah Hospital. Two of these men were blind, and had to be sent away under escort. An arrangement has now been made by which the expenses of sending these repatriates to their homes are paid through the Singapore Advance Account with the Treasury in Hongkong.
A noteworthy feature of this Emigration is the extremely favourable terms granted to the labourer.
An effort to induce the labourers to take their wives met with little or no response.
(c.) British Solomon Islands.-A few carpenters were recruited. to work in these territories for Messrs. Lever's Pacific Plantations
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(d) Makatea.--An application from the (French) Government of Tahiti for Chinese assisted labourers to work for the Compagnie Francaise des Phosphates de L'Oceanie was approved. One ship- ment left in the month of May.
The whole of this South Sea Island emigration has been carried out through the agency of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., to whom is due an acknowledgment of their courtesy and readiness to meet the requirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance.
(e) Deli, Sumatra.-As the result of an application from the Deli Planters Association arrangements have been made for a regular flow of assisted labour to this port. This enigration, which, until his regrettable decease, was managed by Mr. Van Yzeren, promises in every way to uphold the good traditions of assisted emigration to the Dutch East Indies. The men are recruit- ed from the Hoklo districts round Swatow, and efforts have been made, with considerable success, to induce wives to follow their husbauds abroad. The first shipment for Deli left in the late
autumn.
Owing to the scarcity of direct ships from Hongkong to Deli, these men are sometimes sent in British ships as far as Singapore, where, arrangements have been made for their transhipment.
(f.) Cuba.-The relaxation of the restriction on Chinese im- migration into Cuba, so as to enable the Cuban Government to discharge its obligations under the International Sugar Convention led to a rush of Chinese emigrants to Cuba. The Secretary of State has ruled that apart from old emigrants returning to Cuba, such emigration could not be permitted without the sanction of the Governments of China and Cuba. In the absence of any efforts on the part of the Government of Cuba to put the emigration on a regular footing the position is still unsatisfactory.
14. The total number of free emigrants to the Fiji Islands, who passed through this office was 42. They went in small parties at irregular intervals.
15. Fifteen (15) decrepits were returned from Singapore, one died at sea: the rest were sent back to their homes by the Tung Wah Hospital. Two of these men were blind, and had to be sent away under escort. An arrangement has now been made by which the expenses of sending these repatriates to their homes are paid through the Singapore Advance Account with the Treasury in Hongkong.
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