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Ordinance was enacted that it would work to prevent the
giving of passages to this port to undesirables from the
other ports of the Far East. I annex a copy of a note on
cases of destitution during the year 1905 furnished at my
request by the Reverend J. H. France, Chaplain to the
Sailors' Home and to the Seamen's Mission. In asking for
this note I did not refer to the Vagrancy Ordinance but
Your Lordship will see that that measure has had the effect
that was anticipated for it.
8.
A strong argument for maintaining
the Ordinance in its present form is that no opposition
was raised to it by the representatives on the Legislative
Council of the local Shipping Owners and Agents which
indicates their realization that the method chosen for
combating a real evil was justified in the interest of the
Colony and at the same time imposed no undue restrictions
on their own business.
9.
Since receiving Mr. Lyttelton's
Despatch under reply I have consulted Mr. C. W. Dickson,
head of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company's business
here and the Unofficial Member of the Executive Council
who represents on it the shipping interests of the Colony.
He
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