nobody at
?
regulations exist and
or elsewhere
has suggested
Hong trong
estraining
men
in
peenishing working connection with the
Sunday
labour afloat. Whilst the Governor
does not even
notice the simple.
suggestion actually made,
has
which
direct reference to booties on land, but to employers on the seas.
The definite proposal is
1
that to aptains of ships, not coolies, should pay fees for permission to
cargoes
have their
worked
on
Sundays;
I should pay fines if they thus employ labour without such due permission from the Port Authorities.
This proposal the Governor has not replied to
obtain in
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+
6.
or noticed
at all.
Restrictive regulations."
most Christian countries, cording to the present Blue Book
accor
On Sunday labour in the Colonies"," they obtain in 23 British Colonies
out
of
the 40 which have replied
9
to Lord to nutsford's dispatch; whilst
working of cargoes.
there is
~22-0
Sundays in
the permission
on
25 such Colonies; and
of
a port authority
453
for such work is required in one half of the bolonies referred to.
But bolonies
weighed as well as
correspondence
regulations in all
are
must be
counted; I this
that restrictive
very rigidly enforced the more important bolonies,
in
as for example in the Australian Colonies, by local
bye-laws New Jealand; & in the Cape Colonies, Lunday working
whilst there is
of cargoes in Newfoundland &c.
7. Against the Governor of Hong to ong's argument, we would quote the Bombay Government Order
of July 1882, because in that
Harbour
coolies
ole
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elb ahommad an
the cargo work
the two places being
H
Bong Kong,
in this res prect
much
alike.
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