CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12] — Page 355

Any further communication should be addressed to:--

THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, (MARINE DEPARTMENT),

And the following letter and number should be quoted

15471.

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Telegraphic Address.

BOARD TRADE, MARINE, LONDON.

C.O.

25282 | 847

RECO

AFG° 28 JUL OS

MARINE DEPARTMENT,

7, WHITEHALL GARDENS,

LONDON, S.W.

27th July, 1909.

sir,

You

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I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter of the 8th instant forward-

ing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kon

ng respecting the proposal that legislation should be in-

troduced requiring Asiatic seamen who have engaged on or discharged from foreign ships at Hong Kong to

be engaged or discharged at the Mercantile Marine

Office in that Colony and in reply I am to state

for the information of the Earl of Crewe, that the Board of Trade do not desire to raise any objection to the proposal.

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The Board however wish me to take this op-

portunity to suggest that the Governor of Hong Kong should sanction special forms of agreement for lascars

engaged in the Colony, which might be based on the

special form of agreement sanctioned by the Indian

Government for the same purpose in accordance with

the provisions of Sections 26 - 30 of the Indian Act

V of 1883.

This special form of agreement ( a specimen of

The Under Secretary of State,

which

Colonial Office,

S.W.