referred by th. (ardwell to the Governor
of Hongkong has elicited the report papers
branch
3.
and
now sent home by th. Kiesser.
Mr. Sampson stated that his
agsney
at Hongkong for
collecting (kincce Labourers for
succeffully
British Guiana
and Trinidad had
worked
until about the
End
of
last
year
when it fell off
much that he considered it expedient to close it. The decline be attributed to
poreign competition, which being carried
on
lif
by a cheaper and, as he implied, a
trustworthing machinery placed
his operations
at a
disadvantage-
HE
stated in effect (1) that the individuals
who conduct this competition
with us
170
are clothed
official character _ (2) that they
are not subject to legal control,
or lo
effective expervision by the Colonial authorities _ and (3) that the collecting
Agents are paid by a capitation fee-
thus
in
reviving which when the Allied Commisionere
Hongkong a system
were in Canton was
J
abuses that it was
the concurrence
found so pell
experceded, with
of the Chinese & British Governments, by the regulated but more expensive system of salaried Government Officers, under which
M. Sampson at present adi -
M. Merceri report and
i
easury
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