CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12] — Page 236

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Patshan, Skoko, Hongkong ato. A an ordinary mla they are

not fit for the work required of them; it also often happene that their relatives fip: tint they have run away and want to get them beck and here to pay a considerable rum of money to *Cleat this objent. It is this elacs of emigrants who are

laregly responsible for the unpopularity of emigration amongst the Chinese. By the Singapore law no person under 18 or over 45 is allowed to sign a contract, Per one who age art ears to be out:ide these liaits should therefore be rejected either for singapore or antok. Occasionally young bogs are found going with a mushèr of relativar, 80%* going es frer, 80: # AB assisted. In such asees arrangements should be made that the young boys go a3 Irea raeuangers. Young boys may he allowed to go to Billiton where Epnoial arrengssente are made for them

10. (a). Practically all emigrants from wetow go to Billiton in the Dutch Indine. They coua chiefly from Ea Ying

Chai.

(b). The od Tau #migranta ii.n. from linen and the neighbourin, districts) come throngh Hongkong Boarding

Houses in Hoi Han. They are brought to Rongkong by Boarding

House runners who have had practically nothing to do with

their recruiting. It is therefore hard to find out the truth

about them. Sheir nature is quite different from that of

Cantonese and they are very suspicious and I think they lin

more. A number of them dospådan of having heen ka**** brought

down under false pr«t»nosa, soketizes obviously falsely; but

in practically all onees 1" they do not went to go, they

ought to be sent home by the Tung "a hospital at the expense

of the Boarding House that shipped then. Greet oere should

be teen with the real natives of Raluca.

(o). People from Frohow are a good olan of

erigrant

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