CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7] — Page 209

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Labour Association Limited

Singapore, 17th February, 1925.

sir,

To have the honour to advise that we have

received instructions to recruit fer the Sarawak Government

for work on

The Sarawak Government Cellieries,

Badong (Tia Kuching)

90 Chinese Sinkehs, if posñible net over 18 years of age.

Young coelies are desired as they are easier

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to teach the various tasks to be performed than older men.

The particulars of the agreement the coolies will be required to sign on arrival in Sarawak are as

follows:-

A. Term of service 3 years.

B. Tages 50 cents per day out of which coolies pay

for their food.

C. Return passage to Hongkong on termination of agree-

Ment:

D. Werk: Coal Mining, underground.

I. The coolies to acknowledge a debt of $40

recoverable at about $1.00 per month;

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To have interviewed the Protector of Chinese,

Singapore she has advised us that he has no objection to the

above mentioned terms and that if the coolies are forthcoming

from Hongkong he will permit them to pressed to Sarawak.

To have been instructed to forward the

coolies from Singapore to the care of the Chief Secretary

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to Government, Jarawak, in the first place and he will send

them