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TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS.-
"LOGBOARD, LONDON"
My Lord,
Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom.
4, Whittington Avenue.
Padauball H.E.C.
CO 41300
RFCD R 9 NOV 06
7th November 1976.
I have the honour to inform your lordship that at the last meeting of the Executive Council of this Chamber their attention was called to the fact of the serious disabilities imposed on British Shipping by the Hong Kong Chinese Emigration Ordinance No. 1 of 1889 and to express to your lordship their earnest hope that the assent of His Majesty's Government will be given to what appear to be necessary alterations in that Ordinance.
By that Ordinance British ships are allowed (Cl. 18) to carry "free Chinese emigrants under no contract of service" on a voyage of not more than thirty days duration, from any port in China without restriction as to destination; or (Cl. 14) to carry Chinese labourers etc., under contract, to any British possession.
My Council are informed that the Hong Kong Government, acting under this Ordinance, have recently refused to allow British ships to carry Chinese labourers under contract from Hong Kong or any Chinese treaty port to any country or possession other than British, or anywhere at all on a voyage of greater length than thirty days. Foreign ships come under this Ordinance at Hong Kong, but not at Chinese Treaty ports, e.g., the British steamship "Powhatan" was recently chartered in London to carry 500 coolies from Foochow to Santa Rosalia, Mexico. This emigration had the direct sanction of the Fokien Provincial Authorities; the contracts were approved by them, and the Mexican Authorities were in full accord with
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TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS.-
"LOGBOARD, LONDON?
My Lord,
Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom.
4. Whittington Avenur.
Padauball H.E.C.
CO
41300
RFCD
R 9 NOV 06
7th November 1976.
I have the honour to inform your lordship that at the last meeting of the Executive Council of this Chamber their attention was called to the fact of the serious dis- abilities imposed on British Shipping by the Hong Kong Chinese Emigration Ordinance No. 1 of 1889 and to express to your lordship their earnest hope that the assent of His Majesty's Government will be given to what appear to be necessary
alterations in that Ordinance.
By that Ordinance British ships are allowed (C1. 18) to carry "free Chinese emigrants under no contract of service"
"on a voyage of not
from any port in China
+
more than thirty days duration", without restriction destination; or (C1. 14) to carry Chinese
under contract, to any British possession.
as to
labourers etc.,
My Council are informed that the Hong Kong Government, acting under this Ordinance have recently refused to allow British ships to carry Chinese labourers under contract from Hong Kong or any Chinese treaty port to any country or possession other than British, or anywhere at all on a voyage of greater length than thirty days. Foreign ships come under this Ordinance at Hong Kong, but not at Chinese Treaty ports, e.g. the British steamship "Powhatan" Was recently chartered in London to carry 500 coolles from Foochow to Santa Rosalia, Mexico. This emigration had the direct sanction of the Fohkien Provincial Authorities; the contracts were approved by them, and the Mexican Authorities were in full accord with
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