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My Lord,
RECEIVED
31 MAR1930 COL.O..
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 27th February, 1930.
With reference to Sir Cecil Clementi's despatch
No.552 of 27th December, 1929, on the subject of emigration
to Western Samoa, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship
that I have received from Messrs. Gibb, Livingston and
Company, agents in Hong Kong for the Samoa Administration, a
request for permission to recruit and ship labourers to
Western Samoa as assisted emigrants.
The contract which it is desired that these
enigrants should sign on arrival follows the lines of that
already approved with the addition of the following clause:-
"Labourers who are unemployed of their own fault
"or leave their employers without valid reason
"will be called upon to pay their own overhead
"charges viz. nine (9) pence per day during the
"time they are out of employment"
2.
As this clause appeared to imply that in
certain circumstances labourers may be called upon to refund
a portion of the cost of their recruitment and passage to
and from the islands and as this appeared to me to be
possibly open to objection on principle I instructed the
Overhead charges.
Anad (3)
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&C..
&C.,
&c.
Secretary
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