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extra consequential cost to this Colony by establishing an
Emigration Sub-department in the Registrar General's Office)
was to give fuller effect to the policy of His Majesty's
Government by establishing a more effectual check over this
class of "voluntary passenger", a check which I am satisfied
has had the most beneficial results. The question is one in
which I take a strong personal interest and the results of
the close scrutiny into the application made by the German
Chief Justice of Samoa and the German Consul into what appeared
on the face of it as a legal and proper request, with the
result of a refusal to entertain the application, proves that
this Government has taken the utmost care to safeguard the
interests of these Chinese Emigrants although in opposition
to the shipping interests of the Port. Throughout the
correspondence with the Colonial Office, however, which
preceded the enactment of the Ordinance 4 of 1908 there was
no suggestion that Assisted Emigration should be confined
to British possessions.
5.
The essential safeguard required is that an
Assisted Emigrant on arrival at his destination, should have
time to acquaint himself with the conditions of the Contract
which
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