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recruiter has promised work in Hongkong. There are numerous

ways of recruiting but they are 11 run on more or less the

same lines. The hoarding house in Hongkong generally keeps itself free from hlame, The ordinary cost to a boarding

house in Hongkong to obtain an emigrant varies between $8 to

15.

The houring house in Hongkong gets sume verying between $35 to $41 (Singapore currency) for coolies landed

in Singapore. (The boarding house here pays the parsegol (These are 1908 figures, the cost my have nor asad),

Under ordinary circumst: nees an emigrent who

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is unwilling or who is considered by the examining officer

unfit to proceed is sent to the Tuny a Hospital to be sent

home at the expense of the Boarding House.

15. Two kinds of boarding houses are mentioned in

the Byelaws Hotels and Soarding Houses for Assisted Emigrants 34 244. The Hotel provides for the ordinary per-

Bone with male and female passin, through Hongkong for

Singapore an: elsewhere.

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All assisted Emigrants must be lodged in the

These ehou d

Boarding Houses for Assisted migrants

be kept under strict scrutiny. Free me e emigrants lodge **

there at times, they are generally connected in some way

with the assisted maig enta; this is permitted by the Byelaws.

There aerieted boarding houses are not generelly

themselves directly responsible for the freuds that occur.

Most of them have & direct connection with bowe district and

do very little business outside that. Most trouble arises

in these hoarding houses who deal with in youths, westers

and loafers from Cunton, Kaono, Fetchan sto, and they ought

to he treated with great severity. Shep ere reuponsible for

most of the unpopularity 2 this emigration.