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their part respecting law in question.
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the
The gist of the
| Petition is that the Ordinance
will
operate for the benefit of about 1000 Europeans, at expense of 100,000 Chinese,
the ex
who are said to be daily
employed on daily wages
loading and transhipping
on lear
cargo.
is
The argument. borrowed from a speech of Dir G. William Des Veux-
in
in the Legislative Council on the 18th of April, 1889.
But I have to point
out that, as is clearly indicated in that speech,
Sir G. William Des Vaux contemplated that it would
necessary to apply any law against Sunday labour
be
in the harbour to all vessels in the harbour, including Chinese Junks and boats, and his estimate of 100,000
was
therefore
an estimate of
the
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