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of labour control exists, as obtains in the Straits Settlements.
With reference to paragraph 3(b) of your
4.
Despatch, your assumption that the employment of only such Medical Practitioners will be approved as would meet the require- -ments of the Straits Settlements Ordinance is correct. I regret that in my Despatch of the 19th. August, 1913, this point was not referred to. The alterations suggested in paragraph 3(c) and para- -graph 3(e) have been inserted.
5.
The ambiguity caused by the indiscriminate use
of the words "emigrant" and "passenger" to which you refer in paragraph 3(d) of your Despatch has now been removed by inserting definitions of both terms in the Preliminary Provisions and by eliminating the use of the term "passenger" except where its use is strictly legitimate under the definition.
6.
Subject to your approval, I have met represent- -ations made to me by the Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company by deleting Section 5 and substituting therefor a new Section as follows:-
"Nothing contained in the provisions of this Ordinance
shall be deemed in the case of any ship which is being regularly employed in the conveyance of public mails
under contract with the Government of the State or
Colony for which such mails are carried or of any other
ship which is approved by the Governor as a lst. class
ship to apply to passengers who being natives of Asia
are travelling or are about to travel on the same terms
as non-Asiatic passengers in the lst. class of any such
ship or in the 1st. and 2nd. class of any such ship if such ship carries more than 2 classes of passengers. The number of Asiatic passengers travelling 1st. or 2nd. class saloon, has increased very largely of recent years and it seems
to me reasonable that they should be treated on the same footing
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