CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891 — Page 490

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487

of

other persons afloat personally affected by the working of cargoes

in harbour

The signatures include

*

only 48

or

50

persons directly

are

of

connected with shipping, several of these being Germano & other foreigners; whilst

these fifty, heads of only nineteen houses, being mostly agents for absentee shipowners in England or Scotland be. Thus leaving, out of the fifty shipping people was

hardly

sign, 31 clerks, &c, who could

VC,

do otherwise than sign when their

chiefs did

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several

the

of

clerks having previously signed,

the Sailor's petition

in 1888,

against compulsory Sunday

work.

edmon get the other sig-

Laterres

matures

are

those

of & storekeepers, many

being Parsees, Jews,

111 Merchants

them of

& not a

Jew

Germans; 6 insurance companies

of

which

ad

only

tivo

have signed

43 Brokers, Bank

Companies;

Clerks, & Architects &e; I Dentist ;

anot

29 others not known to our

corresponden dents

at Hong Kong,

and duplicate signatures; making. with the beforementioned fifty per-

Aons

directly connected,

as agents

or clerks, &c, with the shipping

business,

taries

С

total

who

240

of

signa would stay the hands

of right and justice to the 126,000

seamen who annually

officers &

frequent the great harbour of

trong trong

under the British

flag, besides those

do

40

under

crews who

foreign flags.

This