CO129-509-6 Recruitment of Chinese labour in Hong Kong for work in North Borneo and Spanish guinea... 27-3-1928 - 27-12-1928 — Page 47

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Any further communication should

be addressed to:-

THE SECRETARY,

And the following letter and number

should be quoted.-

1.137/3/1928.

Telephone Number: Victoria 9200.

♡ LUD

의

Sir,

52799

OR

RECEIV

1 SEP 192

ED MEN

OOL, OFFI

to

MINISTRY OF LABOUR,

MONTAGU HOUSE,

WHITEHALL

LONDON, S.W.1.

31st August, 1928.

I am directed by the Minister of Labour to refer

to your letter 0.52799/28 of the 27th August with which was enclosed copy of a despatch from the Officer Administer- ing the Government of Hong Kong, with enclosures, relative to a proposal to recruit Chinese farmers in the Colony for work in Spanish Guinea. In reply I am to acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Amery, that while Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland is not competent to criticise the terms of the actual proposal in question, yet in view of the prominence that is now being given internationally to all questions affecting native and colonial labour, he very much hopes that proposals of this kind vill only be entertained after the closest scrutiny and when Mr. Amery is satisfied that the risks of misrepresentation or embarrassment for H.M. Government are negligible.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office Whitehall, S.w.1

R. G. Som Ewell

Copy to 1:0.

20.

BT. 28