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 53

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Sir,

Enclosure No. 3.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hong Kong.

2nd May, 1928.

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In reply to your letter of 17th April, 1928,

regarding Fr. Juan Mencarini's special mission on behalf

of the Spanish Government to recruit 2,000 Chinese labour

emigrants for the Colony of Spanish Guinea, on the West

Coast of Africa, I am directed to inform you that it is

necessary to refer the matter for the instructions of the

Secretary of State for the Colonies before the arrangement s

suggested could be approved.

2. I am, however, to point out that the conditions

drafted for the labour migrants present a number of

difficulties. Apart from the point that indentured labour

is no longer allowed to emigrate from Hong Kong, the method

of paying the labourer on arrival at his destination makes

it impossible without much further detail to say what the

labourer's minimum wages would be.

3. It will, therefore, be clear to you that no

early answer except an unfavourable one can be given to

the auggestion in yur letter.

The Consul for France

in charge of the

Spanish Consulate in

HONO

KONG.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

(Sd.) T. W. Ainsworth,

Colonial Secretary.