CO129-503-7 Chinese labour- recruitment for work in coal mines in Sarawak 17-9-1926 - 14-2-1928 — Page 37

CONFIDENTIAL.

Sir,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 30th December, 1926.

25688/21

M. Bok

Enclo. No. 1

Enclo. No.

-ping peny

mo 25638/25

NB

With reference to previous correspondence

terminating with your confidential despatch dated 25th

June, 1925, on the subject of the recruitment of Chinese

labour or work in the coal mines in Sarawak, I have the

honour to forward for your information a copy of a letter

with enclosures from the Secretary for Chinese Affairs,

Straits Settlements, concerning a proposal to recruit

labour from Hong Kong not directly but through Singapore,

and of the reply which I have caused to be sent.

2.

I invite your attention to the last

paragraph of Sir G. Grindle's confidential letter dated 19th June, 1925, to the Government Agent, Sarawak Govern-

ment Offices. It forms an enclosure to your confidential despatch of 25th June, 1925, and states that it is not

possible for you to ask the Governor of Hong Kong to go

further in the matter than he is himself prepared to go.

The attitude of this Government with

3.

Gov 180*9/2eference to recruitment for Sarawak was set out in my

Gov 2

Ho.

predecessor's despatches No. 114 of 17th March, 1925, and 128524 221 of 22nd May, 1925, in the latter of which he

stated that the only remaining objection of this Goverment

was that the system proposed was practically equivalent to

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.CM.S. AMERY, M.P.

&c.,

indentured

&c.,

&c.