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        "content_text": "E. \n\nF \n\nSupplementing Treaty . \n\nHonkong Entered \n\nJ. Jans that \n\nMenular letter t \n\nEnd. Sepphand End. Sospe \n\nand Panchay \n\n5 have h \n\nSir, \n\nFunny 95 \n\n5t havek 1344 \n\n# du stadioan to Lord Standing \n\ndination Incline the accompanying co \n\nof the Sufflementing Party \n\nof the 8t: Deluther 15748. The 15th Antich \n\norg forsegling of that Realty imfores \n\nAuthonker at \n\nthe Bribil \n\nsin let \n\ncưng đang thin antierfaled, the duty of militching \n\nstigations with the claris of preferred by the Chinese Goo? againil Barticle Subjects and \n\nnch clois \n\nA.2. \n\nGost \n\nrequires \n\nthat ther \n\netiklished the Bulich \n\nAuthorities ot? oblige the Defaulter - \n\nWebber to settle them to the short- \n\nJea \n\nLord Harley \n\nhaturther in an \n\nwhmont of \n\nis desirous to be siffrormed \n\nth \n\nobligehen für \n\nfulfilment of which the drambine the \n\nthe \n\nthat in \n\ntheilig fort at Stony drong Indirail Authority at the flace to be responsible. His lordships further desirous of being informed \n\nwhat \n\nin then aufportion \n\nand \n\nthe Goo or the Count are to acqject",
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        "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846",
        "page_number": 605,
        "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846",
        "content_text": "To Female Yes Sir,\n\nI am in the Dept Office buying.\n\nBefore opponents come.\n\nV.\n\n2\n\nEntered\n\n1721 thing\n\n598\n\nW. Scott by\n\n12 Silvig M\n\nSchrishugh\n\nForwardedly\n\nM.Stephen\n\nEarl Grey\n\n1846\n\nB.S 9. Sept 1045.\n\nSamdorictest by\n\nCarl Grey to actualize\n\nthe right q\n\nLebber\n\nenclosing\n\nof the 24. Alt and\n\nCopy Lord of\n\nthe \"Oberland\n\n\" Kind of China Newspaper,\n\nbrud O\n\nCalling attention\n\nto the Inbyist of Piracies in the Neighbourhood 9. Stary King. Grey desires one to\n\nLud\n\nExpress to your his thanks\n\nfor the Communication, that he...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]",
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        "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]",
        "content_text": "Reference\n\nRemark\n\nDescription\n\nQuantity\n\nRed Tape\n\nIndia Wafers.\n\nInk stands—with cover\n\nPencils.\n\nWafers.\n\n2 Dog Pe\n\nSealing Wax\n\nSteel Pen\n\nBook\n\nIndia Wabber.\n\n26 packets\n\n2\n\n6 H\n\n1066.\n\nAssorted\n\n2 chrop\n\nIt is requested that the Sealing Wax may be of that hard brown kind known as \"Indian Wax\", in the hot season the Cornwax may be used.\n\nN.B. Besides Quills, and other varieties of Stationery not included in the above Indent, there are sufficient on hand to last through the year.\n\nAudit Office,\n\nHongkong 17th May, 1849\n\n(Signed) B.Caine.\n\nAuditor General.\n\nTrue.\n\n[Secretary's] Office\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nPage 119",
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        "document_key": "CO129-107 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [10-12]",
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        "content_text": "# Motion of British Ships in 1854 arriving from and sailing for Sea to under Class the First of Her Majesty's Admiral in Council of 18th May, 1888-15\n\n## Arrivals\n| Date | Name | Tonnage Register | Where from | Where bound |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| January 20 | Bakar Kipo | 1090 | Bombay | Singapore |\n| January 23 | Ottawa | 914 | \" | \" |\n| January 23 | doen (Retin) | 743 | \" | Bombay |\n| February ... | Amen | 908 | \" | \" |\n| February 25 | hijsa | \" | \" | it |\n| February | Ama | 1367 | Bihar | \" |\n| March 14 | China | 136 | Ottawa | \" |\n| March 14 | #! | \" | \" | \" |\n| March | Amen |  |  |  |\n| April 15 | Seddo | \" | Orissa | 歹 |\n| April 22 | Singapore | 7779 | China | Kunku |\n| April 13 | Bhar | 1367 | \" | \" |\n| June 27 | Brian | 1779 | Jeddo | \" |\n| June | China | 7367 | Malla | 940 |\n| July |  | 1254 |  |  |\n| July 22 | Singapore |  | Zmen |  |\n| September 18 | Drivsa | 2 |  |  |\n| October 26 |  |  | aden. Kabette... | Benaris |\n| November | Amen | 10 | Frisse Sghette | 10 |\n| November 24 | Ganges |  | Carnatic |  |\n| December |  |  |  |  |\n\n## Departures\n| Date | Name | Tonnage Register | Where from | Where bound |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n\n## Total\n|  | Tonnage |\n| --- | --- |\n| January | 466 | \n| February | 908 |\n| ... | ... |\n| Total | 24,026 |\n\n## Other Vessels belonging to Baron Concro\n| Date | Name | Tonnage Register | Where from | Where bound |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| February | St. Bombay |  |  |  |\n| June | King |  |  |  |\n| July | Mulla |  | Carnatic |  |\n| August | Singapore |  | Emily! | Singapore |\n| September | Amen! |  |  |  |\n| November | Cirru |  | China |  |\n| November | Bebisn |  |  |  |\n| November | John Night |  | Joan Sasant | nicza Serbiec |\n| November | Typhlomber |  | Bombay | Carble |\n| December | Orissa | 1519 | 2 | 15 |\n| December | Salette |  |  |  |\n\n## Total\n|  | Tonnage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total | 24,582 |\n\n## Sailing Vessels\n| Date | Name | Tonnage Register |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| September | United Service | 588 |\n| \" | James Broth | Sailing |\n| November | rebber | \" |\n| December | John Bright | \" |\n| December | Bombay Castle | 677 |\n| December | Mekery... | \" |\n\n## Acting Colonial Secretary\nM A Alexan\n\nTrue Copy)\n\n## Total Arrivals and Departures\n|  | Tonnage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total arrivals | 32907 |\n| Total Departures | 296.95 |\n\n(Signed) S. &. Konsett, \nAarba Master.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "Clearly as it was getting dark.\n\n\"The European gave me a letter to bring to the Harbour Master. I did not fire on the Mandarin Junto.\n\nMohum-tse & witness Trang stor his X mark Ja tien before me this 30th day of October, 184... (signed) H. G. Thomsett.\n\nMarine Magistrate\n\nFrom - Mr Baird \n\nDeputy Lieutenant \n\n53 \n\nTo H. G. Thomsett \n\nHarbour Master.\n\nYesterday at 4:43 P.M. An Opium Boat chased by a Mandarin junk were run on shore below the Light house. Several pistol shots were exchanged between the crews. The Captain and four men of the opium boat came up to the light house for protection. The Mandarin crew then came on board ashore, put a prize crew on the former, took it and the opium with them, the whole affair lasted but 10 minutes. I was a quarter of a mile away from the lighthouse at the time clearing Telegraph wires which were foul. When I reached ...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format as requested, here is the revised version in HTML:\n\nClearly as it was getting dark.\n\n\"The European gave me a letter to bring to the Harbour Master. I did not fire on the Mandarin Junto.\n\nMohum-tse & witness Trang stor his X mark Ja tien before me this 30th day of Webber, 176... (signed) H. G. Thomsett.\n\nMarine Magistrate\n\nFrom - Mr Baird\nDeputy Lieutenant\n53\n\nTo H. G. Thomsett\nHarbour Master.\n\nYesterday at 4:43 P.M. An Opium Boat chased by a Mandarin junk were run on shore below the Light house. Several pistol shots were exchanged between the crews. The Captain and four men of the opium boat came up to the light house for protection. The Mandarin crew then came on board ashore, put a prize crew on the former, took it and the opium with them, the whole affair lasted but 10 minutes. I was a quarter of a mile away from the lighthouse at the time clearing Telegraph wires which were foul. When I reached...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,\n\nHongkong, 12th November [18]?? (likely 188x, exact year missing or damaged)\n\nRECP\n\n23269\n\nThe Right Honourable The Earl of Kimberley,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nMy Lord,\n\n**\n\nfor your\n\nA\n\nBy desire of the members of this Chamber, we have the honor to forward to Your Lordship's consideration copies of a letter addressed to this Chamber by Messrs. R. Stevens & Co., the Charterers of the Steamship \"Ocean\", together with a statement made by the master.\n\nThe statement details the treatment received by his Chinese passengers at the hands of Government officials at Sydney.\n\nYou will observe that the statement made by the master, Webber, has been sworn to before a Notary Public.\n\nWe are also desired to forward this Chamber's letter to the Sydney Chamber of Commerce.\n\nWe have the honor to be,\n\nYour Lordship's\n\nMost obedient Humble Servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nP. Ryrie\n\nChairman.\n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271\n\n \nbecomes \n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce,\n\nHongkong, 12th November 1882\nRECP\n\n23269\n\nThe Right Honourable The Earl of Kimberley,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nBy desire of the members of this Chamber, we have the honor to forward to Your Lordship's consideration copies of a letter addressed to this Chamber by Messrs. R. Stevens & Co., the Charterers of the Steamship \"Ocean\", together with a statement made by the master.\n\nThe statement details the treatment received by his Chinese passengers at the hands of Government officials at Sydney.\n\nYou will observe that the statement made by the master, Webber, has been sworn to before a Notary Public.\n\nWe are also desired to forward this Chamber's letter to the Sydney Chamber of Commerce.\n\nWe have the honor to be,\n\nYour Lordship's\n\nMost obedient Humble Servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nP. Ryrie\n\nChairman.\n\nPage 270\nPage 271\nPage 270\nPage 271\nPage 270\nPage 271",
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        "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,\n\n270\n\nHongkong, 12th November, 1881.\n\nC. O.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nS. B. H. M.L.C.\n\nChairman,\n\nChamber of Commerce,\n\nSydney.\n\nRECP 2 JAN 82,\n\nA representation having been made to this Chamber by the Charterers of the S.S. \"Ocean\" upon the sworn information of Captain Webber regarding the treatment of passengers by his steamer at ... during his last voyage, before you lay the case as stated by the Commander of the vessel and the Charterers, I am desired to ... at your port I hope that your Chamber will make such representations to the Government of New South Wales as your Committee may deem advisable with the view to obtain ... an investigation of the severity of the quarantine regulations they affect the trade between this Colony and ...\n\nThe above mentioned information of Captain Webber is to the following effect.\n\nThat he left here on the 22nd May 1881 with 448 Chinese and 2 European passengers also a crew of ... officers and men.\n\nThat after touching at Port Darwin and most of the Southern ports, debarking ...",
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        "content_text": "Equally necessary to purify the ship before allowing them to go on board again. Nothing, however, appears to have been done, and neither the effects of the brew which the Chinese passengers were given nor what it was composed of were examined.\n\nThat after being kept in the cold for 3 hours, the unhappy passengers boarded, benumbed with cold, and the vessel was released from quarantine. It was too late to replace the bedding which had been entirely destroyed, in consequence of which the Chinese were compelled to sleep on the bare deck, and one of this number, a Doctor, is said to have died from the exposure and bad treatment he suffered.\n\nThe foregoing narrative of the facts detailed are concerned; the Committee cannot doubt that, in the opinion of this Chamber, it calls for the most urgent remonstrances from your body, not only in the interests of trade and navigation, on the ground that the quarantine regulations of your Port are unnecessarily burdensome and harsh when the prevention of contagion is the sole object you have in view, but also because the barbarous treatment alleged by Captain Webber to have been sustained by the Chinese under the orders of a British Colony's Government is calculated to bring disgrace upon our common nationality.\n\nI need hardly add, as a secondary consideration, that the large and increasing trade between China and Australia can only be developed by a generous administration of equal laws and protection to person and property being accorded to the people of all races alike visiting your Ports.\n\nCopies of the statement of Captain Webber referred to above, and a letter from the Agents, Messrs. G. R. Steamship Co., are enclosed for your information and will be forwarded together with a copy of this communication to the Secretary of Colonies in London.\n\nSigned,\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nYour obedient servant.",
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        "content_text": "Dear Sir,\n\nHong Kong, 4th October, 1881\n\n273\n\n23\n\nREOP\n\nREGO 2 JAN 82\n\nYou have been good enough to express interest in the treatment which our Chartered Steamer \"Ocean\", Captain Webber, and her Passengers were subjected to by the Government of New South Wales upon her recent voyage hence to Australia and back, when at Sydney.\n\nVarious fallacious reports have appeared in print, and we have requested Captain Webber to write out, and swear to, a plain and unvarnished statement of what actually took place, and this we have now the honor of enclosing.\n\nThe Narrative makes no allusion to the pecuniary losses which we have suffered through delay and other causes, which losses you will readily understand are very considerable. We are preparing a Claim for presentation to the proper Authorities at Sydney, whose high-handed behavior is most unjust.\n\nThe real aim of the Government has evidently been to check Chinese Immigration, which we believe to be honourable.\n\nF. Bulkeley Johnson",
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        "content_text": "274\n\nPANIAC\n\nModer\n\nby forward,\n\nmeano\n\nfor you\n\nintimidation and not,\n\n26\n\nput\n\nto protect the Colony from Small Pox.\n\nWe would observe that no steps whatever were taken to cleanse the steamer after the passengers left her.\n\nWe would mention that no notice was given before the sailing of the S.S. Becau from this [place] of the intended action of the Government.\n\nWe shall be greatly obliged if you bring this matter before the Committee Chamber of Commerce, who will we auch public action as may be deemed expedient.\n\nCaptain Webber is now here, and will be happy to attend before the Committee to give any further information considered necessary.\n\nThanking you in anticipation.\n\nWe remain,\n\nDear Sir,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nGeo. R. Stevens",
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        "content_text": "To all to whom these presents shall come\n\nI Edmund Sharp Notary Public duly authorized admitted and sworn residing and practising at Victoria in the Island and British Colony of Hong Kong do hereby certify and attest to all whom it may concern that Henry Webber Master Mariner and Commander of the British Steam Ship \"Ocean\" the person named in the paper declaration hereto annexed, was duly sworn and declared to the truth thereof before me the day of the date thereof, and that the name and signature \"Henry Webber\" thereto subscribed and also signed at the foot of the letter therein referred to and also hereunto annexed is of the proper handwriting of the said Henry Webber.\n\n(Signed)\n\nIn Faith and Testimony whereof I the said Notary have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this Twenty fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.\n\nEdmund Sharp\n\nNotary Public,\n\nHong Kong",
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        "content_text": "complained at Cooktown, Townsville, and Brisbane, and had by my orders been freely used for sanitary purposes. I trust the foregoing relation of facts will be sufficient to place you in a position to contradict untrue statements which must, I think, have originated in interested parties in order to make the position clear. I shall have much pleasure in confirming the statement on oath before a Notary.\n\nI remain,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nHenry Webber,\n\nCommander S.S. \"Ocean\"\n\n280\n\nI, Henry Webber, Master Mariner and Commander of the British Steam Ship \"Ocean\", now temporarily residing at Victoria, Hong Kong, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare that the letter dated September 24th, 1881, addressed to W. G. James, Esq., Mayor, G. R. Stevens, Esq., and comprised in the three Sheets of foolscap paper hereunto annexed, was written and signed by me; and that all and every statement contained and set forth in the said letter are severally true.\n\nAnd I further declare that the Statements and Circumstances therein contained are true; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, by virtue of an Act made and passed in the Sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled \"An Act to repeal an Act of the then present session of Parliament, entitled 'An Act for the more effectual abolition of oaths and affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire abolition of unnecessary and extrajudicial oaths and affidavits, and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths'.\"\n\nDeclared at Pretoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, this Twenty-fourth day of September, A.D. 1881.\n\n(Signed)\n\nHenry Webber\n\nBefore me,\n\n(Signed)\n\nEdmund Sharp,\n\nNotary Public,\n\nHong Kong",
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        "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]",
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        "content_text": "# XIX-RETURN of CHINESE PASSENGERS SHIPS cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hongkong, during the year ending the 31st day of December, 1881.\n\n## NATION-\n\n| SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATIONALITY OF SHIP | MASTER'S NAME | WHITHER BOUND | ADULTS | CHILDREN | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | 89,310 |  |  |  | 24,097 | 349 | 24,446 |\n| Vorwærts | str. | 905 | British | R. G. Murray | Australia, Straits Settlements | 22 | 3 | 25 |\n| Avoca | str. | 905 | British | J. A. Reddell | Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne | 413 | 72 | 485 |\n| Brishaue | str. | 891 | British | J. A. Reddell | Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne | 164 | 72 | 236 |\n| Rajanattiannhar | str. | 933 | British | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 279 | 124 | 403 |\n| Belgic | str. | 1,716 | British | B. C. Baker | San Francisco | 424 | 70 | 494 |\n| Vortigern | str. | 876 | British | J. Alexander | Bangkok | 40 | 17 | 57 |\n| Danube | str. | 561 | British | A. Clanchy | Bangkok | 14 | 1 | 15 |\n| Mirzapore | str. | 2,270 | British | A. Parish | Straits Settlements | 225 | 79 | 304 |\n| City of Tokio | str. | 3,448 | American | W. B. Cobb | San Francisco | 204 | 13 | 217 |\n| Nestor | str. | 1,459 | British | R. Jago | Straits Settlements | 149 | 81 | 230 |\n| Arratoon Apcar | str. | 1,302 | British | A. B. Mactavish | Straits Settlements | 153 | 82 | 235 |\n| Suez | str. | 1,990 | British | J. D. Eaton | Straits Settlements | 286 | 83 | 369 |\n| Consolation | str. | 704 | British | R. Young | Bangkok | 284 | 331 | 615 |\n| Cyclops | str. | 1,483 | British | E. Stewart | Straits Settlements |  |  |  |\n| Ravenna | str. | 2,117 | British | R. J. Brown | Straits Settlements |  |  |  |\n| Jason | str. | 1,412 | British | H. Davison | San Francisco | 986 |  | 986 |\n| William fl. Besse | str. | 1,027 | American | P. J. Carleton | Portland, Oregon | 596 | 506 | 1,102 |\n| Stentor | str. | 1,304 | British | J. Kirkpatrick | Straits Settlements | 228 | 232 | 460 |\n| Vortigern | str. | 876 | British | J. Alexander | Bangkok | 607 | 4 | 611 |\n| Danube | str. | 561 | British | A. Clanchy | Bangkok | 260 | 271 | 531 |\n| Zambesi | str. | 1,540 | British | A. Symons | Straits Settlements | 152 | 26 | 178 |\n| Patroclus | str. | 1,650 | British | M. R. White | Straits Settlements | 601 | 717 | 1,318 |\n| City of Peking | str. | 3,448 | American | W. E. Nason | Portland, Oregon | 330 | 890 | 1,220 |\n| Orestes | str. | 1,823 | British | J. K. Wester | Straits Settlements | 390 | 393 | 783 |\n| Arratoon Apcar | str. | 1,392 | British | R. J. McConnell | Straits Settlements | 315 | 200 | 515 |\n| Suez | str. | 1,990 | British | W. M. Dodd | Straits Settlements | 557 | 108 | 664 |\n| Dale | str. | 645 | British | J. Thompson | Bangkok, Port Darwin | 157 | 164 | 321 |\n| Ocean | str. | 1,039 | British | H. Wehler | Sydney, Port Darwin, Cooktown | 448 | 299 | 747 |\n| Bowen | str. | 844 | British | F. G. Greet | Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne | 111 | 31 | 142 |\n\n## RETURN OF CHINESE PASSENGERS SHIPS cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hongkong,-( Continued.)\n\n| SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATIONALITY OF SHIP | MASTER'S NAME | WHITHER BOUND | ADULTS | CHILDREN | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward |  |  |  |  | 25,713 |  |  |\n| Belgie | str. | 1,716 | British | B. Davison | San Francisco | 30 | 34 | 64 |\n| Lombardy | str. | 1,720 | Austro-Hung. | J. B. Chapman | Straits Settlements | 80 | 80 | 160 |\n| Japan | str. | 1,885 | British | T. S. Gardner | Straits Settlements | 80 | 113 | 193 |\n| Moray | str. | 1,427 | British | M. J. Butcher | Straits Settlements | 104 | 11 | 115 |\n| Sarpedon | str. | 1,592 | British | J. Rea | Straits Settlements | 257 | 33 | 290 |\n| City of Peking | str. | 3,448 | American | G. G. Berry | San Francisco | 960 | 993 | 1,953 |\n| Antenor | str. | 1,645 | British | J. T. Bragg | Straits Settlements | 215 | 216 | 431 |\n| Zambesi | str. | 1,540 | British | A. Symons | Straits Settlements | 154 |  | 154 |\n| Consolation | str. | 704 | British | R. Young | Bangkok |  |  |  |\n| Geelong | str. | 764 | British | R. Young | Bangkok | 174 | 38 | 212 |\n| Urano | str. | 1,319 | Austro-Hung. | N. Ueropina | Straits Settlements | 505 | 26 | 531 |\n| Rajanattiannhar | str. | 933 | British | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 371 | 382 | 753 |\n| Gaelic | str. | 1,718 | British | W. H. Kidley | San Francisco | 596 | 696 | 1,292 |\n| Khiva | str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Naples | str. | 1,473 | British | C. White | Straits Settlements |  |  |  |\n| Consulation | str. | 764 | British | R. Young | Bangkok | 703 | 745 | 1,448 |\n| Nizam | str. | 1,727 | British | G. W. Brady | San Francisco | 811 | 829 | 1,640 |\n| Achilles | str. | 1,529 | British | C. Anderwou | Melbourne | 138 | 141 | 279 |\n| Quinta | str. | 875 | German | H. N. Thomsen | Bangkok | 171 | 173 | 344 |\n| Gaelic | str. | 1,713 | British | W. H. Kidley | San Francisco | 506 | 596 | 1,102 |\n| Rajanattiannhar | str. | 933 | British | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 511 | 567 | 1,078 |\n\n## (Continued)\n\n| SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATIONALITY OF SHIP | MASTER'S NAME | WHITHER BOUND | ADULTS | CHILDREN | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Taunton | str. | 688 | British | J. Harney | Portland, Oregon | 284 | 208 | 492 |\n| Danube | str. | 561 | British | A. Clonely | Bangkok | 78 | 76 | 154 |\n| Lennox | str. | 1,927 | British | D. Scott | Straits Settlements | 482 | 99 | 581 |\n| Avoca | str. | 905 | British | R. G. Murray | Straits Settlements | 324 | 11 | 335 |\n| St. Vincent | str. | 1,877 | British | R. C. Thompson | San Francisco | 365 | 365 | 730 |\n| Hector | str. | 1,500 | British | E. Billinge | Straits Settlements | 156 | 159 | 315 |\n| Oceanic | str. | 2,440 | British | J. Metcalfe | San Francisco | 1,000 | 1,000 | 2,000 |\n| Japan | str. | 1,865 | British | T. S. Gardner | Straits Settlements | 544 | 210 | 754 |\n| Dale | str. | 645 | British | J. Thompson | Bangkok, Port Darwin | 125 | 126 | 251 |\n| Charlton | str. | 786 | British | A. Erskine | Straits Settlements, Cooktown | 149 | 8 | 157 |\n| Hungaria | str. | 1,720 | Austro-Hung. | H. J. J. Wise | Melbourne, Sydney | 478 | 480 | 958 |\n| Vortigern | str. | 876 | British | J. Alexander | Straits Settlements | 646 | 102 | 748 |\n| Consolation | str. | 764 | British | R. Young | Bangkok, Port Darwin | 129 | 126 | 255 |\n| Polluce | str. | 1,645 | Austro-Hung. | G. Rogusin | Straits Settlements, Cooktown | 398 | 427 | 825 |\n| Meumair | str. | 1,247 | British | W. Ellis | Cleveland Bay | 105 | 2 | 107 |\n| Rajanattianohar | str. | 933 | British | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 210 | 213 | 423 |\n| C. T. Hook | str. | 902 | British | T. Alderton | Melbourne | 86 | 21 | 107 |\n| Danube | str. | 561 | British | A. Clanchy | Bangkok | 298 | 108 | 406 |\n| Nestor | str. | 1,459 | British | R. Jago | Straits Settlements |  |  |  |\n| Cairnsmuir | str. | 315 | British |  |  |  |  |  |\n| City of Tokio | str. | 3,448 | American | G. L. Castle | Straits Settlements | 715 | 37 | 752 |\n| Suez | str. | 1,990 | British | W. M. Dodd | Straits Settlements | 719 |  | 719 |\n\n## (Continued)\n\n| SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATIONALITY OF SHIP | MASTER'S NAME | WHITHER BOUND | ADULTS | CHILDREN | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | 202,815 |  |  |  | 61,943 | 2,103 | 64,046 |\n| Glaucus | str. | 1,648 | British | J. D. Eaton | Straits Settlements | 685 | 24 | 709 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Xenia | str. | 734 | British | A. B. Mactavish | Straits Settlements | 516 | 128 | 644 |\n| Arratoon Apcar | str. | 1,392 | British | A. B. Mactavish | Straits Settlements |  |  |  |\n| Achilles | str. | 1,529 | British | R. J. Brown | Port Darwin | 672 | 25 | 697 |\n| China | str. | 1,037 | British | R. Jago | Straits Settlements | 92 | 14 | 106 |\n| Kenure Castle | str. | 1,260 | British | J. Maury | San Francisco | 1,029 | 1,046 | 2,075 |\n| Berapis | str. | 1,271 | British | S. F. North | Sydney | 882 | 695 | 1,577 |\n| Dale | str. | 645 | British | J. Thompson | Bangkok, Melbourne | 47 | 40 | 87 |\n| Gaelic | str. | 1,718 | British | W. H. Kidley | San Francisco | 282 | 288 | 570 |\n| Adria | str. | 781 | Austro-Hung. | T. Farhtlongli | Straits Settlements, Melbourne | 210 | 9 | 219 |\n| Rajanattiannhar | str. | 933 | British | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok, Port Darwin | 132 | 31 | 163 |\n| Meath | str. | 1,337 | British | J. Johnson | Cooktown | 1 |  | 1 |\n| Anjer Head | str. | 1,800 | British | A. Roper | Straits Settlements, Sydney | 498 | 518 | 1,016 |\n| Danube | str. | 561 | British | A. Clanchy | Bangkok | 110 | 124 | 234 |\n| City of Tokio | str. | 3,448 | American | W. B. Cobb | San Francisco | 1,087 |  | 1,087 |\n| Pekin | str. | 2,202 | British | W. D. Anderson | Straits Settlements | 260 | 200 | 460 |\n| Japan | str. | 1,865 | British | T. S. Gardner | Straits Settlements | 208 | 12 | 220 |\n| Telemachus | str. | 1,421 | British | H. Jones | Straits Settlements | 142 | 142 | 284 |\n| Moray | str. | 1,427 | British | M. J. Butcher | Straits Settlements |  |  |  |\n| Decima | str. | 1,151 | German | L. Petersen | Port Darwin | 72 | 7 | 79 |\n| Mee Foo | str. | 711 | Chinese |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Killarney | str. | 1,284 | British | H. H. Cunningham | San Francisco | 378 |  | 378 |\n| City of Tokio | str. | 3,448 | American | T. Maury | San Francisco | 368 | 920 | 1,288 |\n| Dale | str. | 645 | British | J. Thompson | Bangkok | 83 | 87 | 170 |\n| Consolation | str. | 764 | British | R. Young | Bangkok |  |  |  |\n| China | str. | 1,037 | British | S. F. Cole | Straits Settlements | 203 | 22 | 225 |\n| Canton | str. | 1,095 | British | J. C. Jegnes | Straits Settlements | 553 | 671 | 1,224 |\n| Lombardy | str. | 1,720 | Austro-Hung. | J. B. Chapman | Straits Settlements | 383 | 19 | 402 |\n| Daphne | str. | 1,610 | Austro-Hung. | G. Doncich | Straits Settlements | 356 | 82 | 438 |\n| Septima | str. |  | German | J. Petersen |  | 172 |  | 172 |\n| Diomed | str. | 3,241 | British | M. B. F. Jackson | Straits Settlements | 253 | 253 | 506 |\n| Arratoon Apcar | str. | 1,392 | British | R. J. McConnell | Straits Settlements, Cooktown | 232 | 10 | 242 |\n| Glamis Castle | str. | 1,569 | British | R. J. C. Tod | Sydney | 650 |  | 650 |\n| Suez | str. | 1,990 | British | W. M. Dodd | Straits Settlements | 516 | 37 | 553 |\n| Consulation | str. | 704 | British | R. Young | Bangkok | 206 | 30 | 236 |\n| Rajanattinoubar | str. | 933 | British | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 160 |  | 160 |\n| Belgic | str. | 1,716 | British | H. Davison | San Francisco | 522 | 73 | 595 |\n\n## (Continued)\n\n| SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATIONALITY OF SHIP | MASTER'S NAME | WHITHER BOUND | ADULTS | CHILDREN | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Bellerophont | str. | 1,907 | British | T. W. Freeman | Straits Settlements | 420 | 431 | 851 |\n| Bellerophon | str. | 1,907 | British | T. W. Freeman | Straits Settlements | 137 |  | 137 |\n| Geelong | str. | 1,199 | British | W. J. Webber | Straits Settlements | 501 | 571 | 1,072 |\n| China | str. | 1,037 | British | S. F. Cole | Straits Settlements | 772 | 3 | 775 |\n| Danube | str. | 561 | British | A. Clanchy | Bangkok | 297 | 11 | 308 |\n| Carried forward |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n\nPage 363\n\n## (To be continued)\n\nCarried forward,....... 89,310  \nCarried forward 24,897  \n600  \n340  \n03 25,715  \nCarried forward, 202,815  \nCarried forward,. 61,943  \n2,103  \n689:  \n254 54,508",
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        "content_text": "# RETURN of CHINESE PASSENGERS SHIPS cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hongkong,—( Continued.)\n\n## XX.—RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, from Places out of the Chinese Empire, during the Year ending the 31st day of December, 1881.\n\n| No. | DATE CLEARED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATIONALITY OF SHIP | ADULTS | CHILDREN | MASTER'S NAME | WHITHER BOUND | TOTAL |\n| | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Brought forward, |  | 202,815 |  | 1,153 | 154 |  |  |  |\n| 1 | Oct. 12 | Hungarian, str. | 37 |  | 15 |  | Lennox, str. |  | 15 |\n|  |  | Cascapedia, str. | 984 | British | 1,327 | 1,924 | W. McD. Alison | Straits Settlements | 3,251 |\n|  | Brought forward, |  | 51,343 |  | 9,103 |  |  |  | 54,399 |\n| 2 | Jan. 2 | Alden Besse, | 812 | American | 330 |  | W. A. Fraser | San Francisco | 330 |\n| 3 |  | Jason, str. | 1,411 | British | 149 | 17 | Brown | Straits Settlements | 166 |\n| 4 |  | City of Peking, str. | 3,448 | American | 982 | 24 | G. G. Berry | San Francisco | 1,006 |\n| 5 |  | Priam, str. | 1,572 | British | 200 | 3 | Butler | Straits Settlements | 203 |\n| 6 |  | Rosetta, str. | 2,249 | British | 158 | 13 | A. E. Barlow | Straits Settlements | 171 |\n| 7 |  | Saez, str. | 1,390 | British | 238 | 23 | Eaton | Straits Settlements | 261 |\n| 8 |  | Phoenix, str. | 683 | German | 361 | 7 | H. J. Behrens | Straits Settlements | 368 |\n| 9 |  | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,392 | British | 180 | 10 | Mactavish | Straits Settlements | 190 |\n| 10 |  | Dale, str. | 645 | British | 298 | 6 | J. Thompson | Bangkok | 304 |\n| 11 |  | City of Tokio, str. | 3,148 | American | 673 | 13 | Cobb | San Francisco | 686 |\n| 12 |  | Consolation, str. | 764 | British | 161 | 37 | R. Young | Straits Settlements | 198 |\n| 13 |  | Patroclus, str. | 1,650 | British | 272 |  | M. R. White | Straits Settlements | 272 |\n| 14 |  | Rajanattianubar, str. | 982 | British | 84 |  | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 84 |\n| 15 |  | Gaelic, str. | 1,713 | British | 436 | 10 | W. H. Kidley | San Francisco | 446 |\n| 16 |  | Anjer Head, str. | 1,300 | British | 766 |  | A. Roper | Straits Settlements | 766 |\n| 17 |  | Khiva, str. | 1,500 | Austro-Hung. | 150 |  | M. de Horne | Straits Settlements | 150 |\n| 18 | Nov. 3 | Clara, | 939 | British | 4 |  | A. S. Cutler | Antigua, West Indies | 4 |\n| 19 |  | Avoca, str. | 905 | British | 205 |  | J. P. Hassall | Straits Settlements | 205 |\n| 20 |  | Ocean, str. | 1,090 | Austro-Hung. | 75 | 1 | H. Webber | Straits Settlements | 76 |\n| 21 |  | Torwarts, str. | 1,817 | German | 198 |  | J. Marussig | Straits Settlements | 198 |\n| 22 |  | Danube, str. | 561 | British | 157 | 1 | A. Clanchy | Bangkok | 158 |\n| 23 |  | Japan, str. | 1,865 | British | 136 | 12 | T. S. Gardner | Straits Settlements | 148 |\n| 24 |  | Kasugar, str. | 1,515 | Japanese | 161 |  | R. G. Murray | Straits Settlements | 161 |\n| 25 |  | Ravenna, str. | 2,118 | British | 48 | 8 | Stewart | Straits Settlements | 56 |\n| 26 |  | Lenroy, str. | 1,411 | British | 220 | 17 | Wallace | Straits Settlements | 237 |\n| 27 |  | Danube, str. | 561 | British | 41 |  | Clanchy | Bangkok | 41 |\n| 28 |  | Consolation, str. | 764 | British | 80 | 10 | Young | Straits Settlements | 90 |\n| 29 |  | Antenor, str. | 1,645 | British | 266 |  | Bragg | Straits Settlements | 266 |\n| 30 |  | Lorne, str. | 1,033 | British | 152 | 1 | McKechnie | Straits Settlements | 153 |\n| 31 |  | Lydia, str. | 1,170 | German | 260 |  | Paulsen | Straits Settlements | 260 |\n| 32 |  | Lord of the Isles, str. | 1,586 | British | 207 | 15 | Folgate | Straits Settlements | 222 |\n| 33 |  | Dale, str. | 645 | British | 66 | 1 | Thompson | Bangkok | 67 |\n| 34 |  | Cassandra, str. | 937 | German | 251 |  | Langer | Various Ports | 251 |\n| 35 |  | Bowen, str. | 844 | British | 271 | 33 | Green | Townsville | 304 |\n| 36 |  | Oceanic, str. | 2,440 | British | 808 | 23 | J. Metcalfe | San Francisco | 831 |\n| 37 |  | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,992 | British | 310 | 79 | A. B. Mactavish | Straits Settlements | 389 |\n| 38 |  | Suez, str. | 1,300 | British | 362 | 10 | W. M. Dodd | Melbourne | 372 |\n| 39 |  | Auchises, str. | 1,304 | British | 243 |  | C. Jackson | Port Darwin | 243 |\n| 40 |  | Menmuir, str. | 1,947 | British | 40 | 4 | W. Ellis | Various Ports | 44 |\n| 41 |  | Consolation, str. | 764 | British | 51 |  | R. Young | Bangkok | 51 |\n| 42 |  | Devonshire, str. | 1,513 | British | 384 | 23 | A. Purvis | Straits Settlements | 407 |\n| 43 |  | Thibet, str. | 1,071 | British | 100 |  | W. K. Jordan | Straits Settlements | 100 |\n| 44 |  | Cyclups, str. | 1,403 | British | 635 | 4 | C. Butler | San Francisco | 639 |\n| 45 | Dec. 1 | Rajanattianalar, str. | 793 | British | 67 |  | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 67 |\n| 46 |  | City of Tokio, str. | 3,448 | American | 1,022 | 27 | J. Maury | San Francisco | 1,049 |\n| 47 |  | Nelson, str. | 895 | British | 301 |  | J. Thom | Straits Settlements | 301 |\n| 48 |  | Danube, str. | 561 | British | 52 |  | A. Clauchy | Bangkok | 52 |\n| 49 |  | Jason, str. | 1,412 | British | 393 |  | R. J. Brown | Straits Settlements | 393 |\n| 50 |  | Gwalior, str. | 3,720 | British | 171 |  | A. W. Adamson | Straits Settlements | 171 |\n| 51 |  | Dale, str. | 645 | British | 22 |  | P. H. Loff | Bangkok | 22 |\n| 52 |  | Lennox, str. | 1,927 | British | 505 | 27 | D. Scott | Straits Settlements | 532 |\n| 53 |  | Belgic, str. | 1,716 | British | 671 |  | H. Davison | San Francisco | 671 |\n| 54 |  | Geelong, str. | 1,139 | British | 89 |  | W. J. Webber | Straits Settlements | 89 |\n| 55 |  | Helios, str. | 1,590 | German | 115 |  | E. Billinge | Straits Settlements | 115 |\n| 56 |  | Japan, str. | 1,557 | Austro-Hung. | 157 | 14 | T. S. Gardner | Straits Settlements | 171 |\n| 57 |  | Hector, str. | 1,590 | British | 115 |  | E. Billinge | Straits Settlements | 115 |\n| 58 |  | Mary Tatham, str. | 1,004 | British | 659 |  | J. Gloriey | San Francisco | 659 |\n| 59 |  | Tannadice, str. | 1,408 | British | 222 |  | S. G. Green | Various Ports | 222 |\n| 60 |  | Rose M..., str. | 866 | British | 39 |  | Croil | Newcastle, N.S.W. | 39 |\n| 61 |  | Sarpedon, str. | 1,592 | British | 54 |  | Rea | Straits Settlements | 54 |\n| 62 |  | Gleniffer, str. | 1,438 | British | 70 |  | Graham | Straits Settlements | 70 |\n| 63 |  | China, str. | 1,087 | British | 65 |  | Weighell | Straits Settlements | 65 |\n| 64 |  | Belgic, str. | 1,716 | British | 420 |  | Davison | San Francisco | 420 |\n| 65 |  | Rajanattianuhar, str. | 933 | British | 66 | 20 | Hopkins | Bangkok | 86 |\n| 66 |  | Gordon Castle, str. | 1,320 | British | 60 |  | Waring | Straits Settlements | 60 |\n| 67 | Feb. 1 | Hungaria, str. | 1,460 | Austro-Hung. | 200 |  | Doncich | San Francisco | 200 |\n| 68 |  | Ho Chung, str. | 847 | Chinese | 156 | 2 | Petersen | Honolulu | 158 |\n| 69 |  | Moray, str. | 1,427 | British | 106 |  | Butcher | Straits Settlements | 106 |\n| 70 |  | Japan, str. | 1,865 | British | 25 | 6 | Gardner | Straits Settlements | 31 |\n| 71 |  | Deucalion, str. | 1,639 | British | 130 | 32 | Purdy | Straits Settlements | 162 |\n| 72 |  | City of Peking, str. | 3,448 | American | 174 |  | Berry | San Francisco | 174 |\n| 73 |  | Telemachus, str. | 1,421 | British | 126 | 32 | Jones | Straits Settlements | 158 |\n| 74 |  | Laertes, str. | 1,891 | British | 303 | 1 | Scale | Straits Settlements | 304 |\n| 75 |  | Oxfordshire, str. | 998 | British | 111 |  | Jones | Straits Settlements | 111 |\n| 76 |  | Kasbgar, str. | 1,515 | British | 131 |  | Seaton | Straits Settlements | 131 |\n| 77 |  | Gaelic, str. | 1,713 | British | 93 | 3 | Kidley | San Francisco | 96 |\n| 78 |  | Dale, str. | 645 | British | 23 |  | Thompson | Bangkok | 23 |\n| 79 |  | Naples, str. | 1,470 | British | 384 | 38 | White | Straits Settlements | 422 |\n| 80 |  | Urano, str. | 1,519 | Austro-Hung. | 39 |  | N. Ucropina | Straits Settlements | 39 |\n| 81 |  | Rajanattianuhar, str. | 953 | British | 77 |  | Hopkins | Bangkok | 77 |\n| 82 |  | Benledi, str. | 999 | British | 40 |  | Ross | Straits Settlements | 40 |\n| 83 |  | Gleneagles, str. | 1,838 | British | 113 |  | Auld | Straits Settlements | 113 |\n| 84 | Mar. 1 | Fleurs Castle, str. | 1,622 | British | 248 |  | Kidder | Straits Settlements | 248 |\n| 85 |  | Ajax, str. | 1,524 | British | 297 | 31 | Kidd | Port Darwin | 328 |\n| 86 |  | Verona, str. | 1,085 | British | 198 |  | E. Ashdown | Straits Settlements | 198 |\n| 87 |  | Glaucus, str. | 1,848 | British | 295 | 1 | T. S. Jurkson | Cooktown | 296 |\n| 88 |  | Rajanattianuhur, str. | 933 | British | 44 | 1 | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 45 |\n| 89 |  | Claverhouse, str. | 763 | British | 1 |  | Brown | Townsville | 1 |\n| 90 |  | Menmuir, str. | 1,217 | British | 17 |  | Ellis | Townsville | 17 |\n\n## SUMMARY\n\n| Destination | Adults | Children | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| San Francisco, U.S.A. | 10,989 | 414 | 11,403 |\n| Straits Settlements | 36,545 | 1,414 | 37,959 |\n| Bangkok | 8,006 | 312 | 8,318 |\n| Melbourne | 9,643 | 487 | 10,130 |\n| Sydney | 2,044 | 41 | 2,085 |\n| Port Darwin | 1,198 | 15 | 1,213 |\n| Cooktown | 1,151 | 6 | 1,157 |\n| Townsville | 701 |  | 701 |\n| Thursday Island | 240 |  | 240 |\n| Antigua, West Indies | 4 |  | 4 |\n| Newcastle, N.S.W. | 39 |  | 39 |\n| Brisbane | 172 | 2,3 | 2,175 |\n| Cleveland Bay | 16 |  | 16 |\n| Honolulu | 158 | 2 | 160 |\n| Various Ports | 251 |  | 251 |\n| **Total** | **66,678** | **2,680** | **70,625** |\n\n**Under contract of service**, 50\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Emigration Officer, &c.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]",
        "page_number": 135,
        "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "## RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong,-( Continued). \n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATION-ALITY | ADULTS | CHILDREN | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Brought forward... |  |  |  | 11,581 | 69 |  |  | 11,713 |\n| 69 | 32 April | Glenfiuia, str. | 1,935 | British | 34 |  | Hogg | Straits Settlements | 34 |\n| 70 | 4 | Moray, str. | 1,427 | ** | 4 |  | Butcher | ԲՐ | 4 |\n| 71 | 8 | Sarpedon, str. |  |  | 208 |  |  |  | 208 |\n| 72 | 20 | Rajanattianuhar, str. |  |  | 138 |  |  |  | 138 |\n|  | Brought forward... |  | 185,219 |  | 21,550 | 193 |  |  | 21,538 |\n| 73 | 20 | Japan, str. | 1,865 |  | 200 | 21 | Gardner |  | 200 |\n| 74 | 21 | T. Hook, str. | 902 | British | 263 |  | Bradly | Bangkok | 263 |\n| 78 | 4 | Danube, str. | 561 |  | 32 | 3 | Clancby | Bangkok, Port Darwin | 39 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 35 |\n|  | 5 | Mee Foo, str. | 1,284 | Chinese | 132 |  | Canningham | San Francisco, Cooktown, Honolulu, Townsville | 203 |\n|  |  | Cheang Huck Kian, str. | 956 | British | 142 |  | Webb | Straits Settlements | 53 |\n|  | 22 | Meath, str. | 1,387 |  | 140 |  | Johnson | Brisbane | 73 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 245 |  |  |  | 256 |\n|  | 6 | Stentor, str. | 1,804 |  | 82 |  | Kirkpatrick | Sydney | 9 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 84 |  |  |  | 75 |\n|  | 6 | Canton, str. | 1,095 |  | 60 |  | Jaques | Melbourne | 35 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 60 |  |  |  | 60 |\n|  | 6 | Septima, str. | 783 | German | 63 |  | Petersen | Honolulu | 65 |\n|  | 22 | Rohilla, str. | 2,227 |  | 100 |  | Barratt | Straits Settlements | 143 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 100 |  |  |  | 100 |\n|  | 11 | Glenene, str. | 1,901 | British | 160 |  | Gulland | Straits Settlements | 1+ |\n|  | 22 | Gleneara, str. | 1,410 |  | 120 |  | Duke |  | 144 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 120 |  |  |  | 120 |\n|  | 23 | Consolation, str. | 764 | \" | 74 |  | Young | Bangkok | 77 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 74 |  |  |  | 74 |\n|  | 17 | Ulysses, str. | 1,500 | 가 | 200 |  | Thompson | Fort Darwin, Port Darwin, Cooktown | 145 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 200 |  |  |  | 98 |\n|  | 18 | Brisbane, str. | 891 |  | 228 |  | Craig | Sydney | 130 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 9 |  |  |  | 13 |\n|  | 14 | Bowen, str. | 844 |  |  |  | Darke | Townsville | 147 |\n|  | 29 | Carisbrooke, str. | 960 |  | 302 |  | Wharton | Straits Settlements, Sydney | 310 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 107 |  |  |  | 148 |\n|  | 30 | Danube, str. | 661 |  | 90 |  | Clanchy | Bangkok, Dunedin, N.Z. | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 149 |\n| July | 1 | Antenor, str. | 1,644 | 2) | 250 |  | Bragg | Straits Settlements, Melbourne | 250 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 17 |  |  |  | 150 |\n|  | 27 | China, str. | 1,037 |  | 210 |  | Cale | Straits Settlements | 27 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 200 |  |  |  | 80 |\n|  | + | Patroclus, str. | 1,650 |  | 196 |  | White | Straits Settlements | 151 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 196 |  |  |  | 196 |\n|  | 4 | Suez, str. | 1,390 |  | 160 |  | Dodd |  | 77 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 160 |  |  |  | 81 |\n|  | 21 | Zambesi, str. | 1,540 |  | 33 |  | Symons |  | 152 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 39 |  |  |  | 39 |\n|  | 19 | Achille, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,392 | \" | 216 | 10 | McConnell |  | 231 |\n|  | 5 | Metapedia, str. | 1,453 |  | 81 |  | Fowler |  | $1 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 81 |  |  |  | $3 |\n|  | 21 | Belgie, str. | 1,716 |  | 100 |  | Davison | San Francisco | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 100 |  |  |  | 154 |\n|  | 6 | Bothwell Castle, str. | 1,658 |  | 59 |  | Thomson |  | 59 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 59 |  |  |  | $4 |\n|  | > | China, str. | 1,037 |  | 210 |  | Cole | Straits Settlements | 155 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 210 |  |  |  | 210 |\n|  | ** | Verona, str. | 1,984 |  | 160 |  | Ashdown |  | 85 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 160 |  |  |  | 160 |\n|  | 23 | Tencer, str. | 1,324 |  | $16 |  | Power |  | 86 |\n|  | 25 | Carisbrooke, str. |  |  | 316 |  |  |  | 156 |\n|  | 17 | Mee Foo, str. | 1,284 | Chinese | 359 | }1 | Cunningham | San Francisco | 879 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 960 |  |  |  | 23 |\n|  | 12 | Glenroy, str. | 1,411 | British | 210 |  | Wallis | Straits Settlements | 240 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 240 |  |  |  | 87 |\n|  | 26 | Rajanattianuhar, str. | 933 |  | 175 |  | Hopkins | Bangkok | 34 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 175 |  |  |  | 158 |\n|  | 12 | Catterthun, str. | 1,460 |  | 661 |  | Miller |  | 66 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 66 |  |  |  | 88 |\n|  | !! | Vorworta, str. | 1,785 | Austro-Hung. | 190 |  | Marussig | Straits Settlements | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 190 |  |  |  | 159 |\n|  | \" | Belgie, str. | 2,651 |  | 55 |  | Davison | San Francisco | 55 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 55 |  |  |  | 69 |\n|  | \" | Breconshire, str. | 1,241 | British | 70 |  | Williams |  | 70 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 25 |  |  |  | 160 |\n|  | \" | Laertes, str. | 1,391 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 27 | Lydia, str. | 1,170 | German | 91 |  | Paulsen | Honolulu | 92 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 91 |  |  |  | 161 |\n|  | 16 | Consolation, str. | 764 |  | 350 |  | Young | Straits Settlements, Bangkok | 350 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 56 |  |  |  | 55 |\n|  | 29 | Nizam, str. | 1,727 | British | 144 |  | Brady | Straits Settlements | 144 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 144 |  |  |  | 182 |\n| May | 19 | Rajanattianuhar, str. | 983 |  | 460 |  | Hopkins |  | 460 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 460 |  |  |  | 3 |\n|  | 3 | City of Peking, str. | 3,448 | American | 157 |  | Berry | San Francisco | 157 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 157 |  |  |  | 163 |\n|  | > | Marlborough, str. | 1,175 |  | 407 |  | Sanderson | Straits Settlements | 93 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 51 |  |  |  | 51 |\n|  | 4 | Danube, str. | 561 | British | 140 |  | Clanchy | Bangkok | 140 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 140 |  |  |  | 164 |\n|  | \" | Cheang Hock Kian, str. | 956 |  | 357 | 12 | Webb |  | 424 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 510 |  |  |  | 090 |\n|  | \" | Seewo, str. | 1,058 |  | 73 |  | Bendall | Straits Settlements | 11 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 73 |  |  |  | 73 |\n|  | 22 | Atholl, str. | 923 | \" | 153 |  | Duncan |  | 177 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 170 |  |  |  | 95 |\n|  | 5 | Glenlyon, str. | 3,373 | \" | 140 |  | Donaldson |  | 140 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 140 |  |  |  | 166 |\n|  | # | Menelaus, str. | +3 |  | 22 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 25 | Agamemnon, str. | 1,522 | \" | 198 |  | Wilding |  | 198 |\n|  |  |  | 1,559 |  |  |  | Nicholl |  |  |\n|  | 6 | Cheang Hock Kian, str. | #t |  | 250 |  | Webb |  | 250 |\n|  |  |  | 956 |  | 250 |  |  |  | 167 |\n|  | 12 | Deucalion, str. | 1,639 |  | 381 |  | Purdy |  | 381 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 381 |  |  |  | 381 |\n|  | 28 | Hungaria, str. | 1,460 | Austro-Hung | 40 |  | Sturli |  | 40 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 40 |  |  |  | 40 |\n|  | 9 | Cyclops, str. | 1,403 |  | 44 | 12 | Butler |  | 12 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 9 |\n|  | 9 | Glenfalloch, str. |  |  | 700 |  | J |  | 300 |\n|  | 28 | Danube, str. | 561 | British | 02 | 2 | Clan by | Bangkok | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1,418 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Park |  |  |\n|  | \"J |  |  |  | 70 |  |  |  | 70 |\n|  |  | Suez, str. | 1,390 |  | Dodd |  | 250 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 260 |\n|  | 2 | Japon, str. | 1,865 |  |  |  | Gardner |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 171 |\n|  | 3 | Lenox, str. | 1,327 |  | 240 |  | Seolt |  | 240 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 240 |  |  |  | 3 |\n|  | 101 | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,392 |  | 245 | 15 | McConnell |  | 270 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 30 |  |  |  | 172 |\n|  | 25 | Zambesi, str. | 1,610 |  | 83 |  | Symons |  | $3 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 102 |\n|  | 11 | Bellona, str. | 897 | German | 53 |  | Fickmeier |  | 53 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 53 |  |  |  | 173 |\n|  | 1 | Ajax, str. | 1,524 |  | 190 |  | Kidd |  | 190 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 190 |  |  |  | す |\n|  | 73 | Anchises, str. | 1,304 | British | 118 |  | Jackson |  | 118 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 118 |  |  |  | 174 |\n|  | 13 | Khiva, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Gaelic, str. | 1,712 |  | 11 |  | Alderton |  | 104 |\n|  |  |  | 1,506 |  | 104 |  |  |  | 104 |\n|  | 8 | Dale, str. | 644 |  | 170 |  | Kidley Thompson | San Francisco, Bangkok | 170 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 31 |  |  |  | 53 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Port Darwin | 100 |\n|  | 11 | Carisbrooke, str. | 960 |  | 360 | 10 | Wharton | Straits Settlements | 373 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 105 |\n|  | 13 | Ocean, str. | 1,089 |  | 26 |  | Webber | Port Darwin, Cooktown, Townsville | 116 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | +3 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 155 |  |  |  | 155 |\n|  | 9 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 16 | Killarney, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Sydney | 177 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 19 |\n|  | 12 | Menmuir, str. | 1,247 |  | 12 |  | Ellis | Cooktown, Townsville | $2 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 245 |  |  |  | 16 |\n|  | 16 | Gaelic, str. | 1,060 |  | 11 |  | O'Neill | Bangkok | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 100 |  |  |  | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 60 |  |  | Sydney | 60 |\n|  | 19 | Hector, str. | 1,589 |  | 13 |  | Billinge | Straits Settlements | 346 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 346 |  |  |  | 346 |\n|  | 12 | Consolation, str. | 764 |  | 13 |  | Young | Bangkok | 80 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 80 |  |  |  | 80 |\n|  | 19 | Radnorshire, str. | 1,201 |  | 40 |  | Davies |  | 40 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 40 |  |  |  | 40 |\n|  | 31 | Naples, str. | 1,418 |  | 186 | 2 | White | San Francisco, Port Darwin | 194 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 180 |\n|  | 27 | Carnarvonshire, str. | 1,580 |  | 165 |  | Patrick | Straits Settlements, Thursday Island | 168 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 13 |\n|  | 16 | Lorne, str. | 1,035 |  | 294 |  | McKechnie | Cooktown | 17 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 300 |  |  |  | 300 |\n|  | 19 | Menmuir, str. | 1,247 |  | 31 |  | Ellia | Townsville | 57 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 115 |  |  |  | 115 |\n|  | 11 | Marlborough, str. | 1,175 |  | 198 |  | Sanderson |  | 183 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 198 |\n|  | 20 | Castello, str. | 1,483 |  | 200 |  | Coates | Sydney | 384 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 212 |  |  |  | 37 |\n|  | 20 | Rajamaltianuhar, str. | 933 |  |  |  |  | Dunedin, N.Z. | 385 |\n|  | 24 | Cheang Hock Kian, str. | 955 |  | 186 |  |  | Melbourne | 110 |\n|  | 20 | Consolation, str. | 744 |  | 111 |  | Young | Bangkok | 111 |\n|  | 20 | Gaelic, str. | 1,712 |  | 112 |  |  |  | 112 |\n|  | 20 | Glenfinlas, str. | 1,409 |  | 113 |  |  |  | 113 |\n|  | 21 | Horseguards, str. | 909 |  | 11 |  |  |  | 11 |\n|  | 25 | Kajanaitianuhar, str. | 933 |  | 115 |  |  |  | 115 |\n|  | 25 | C. T. Hook, str. | 902 |  | 116 |  |  |  | 116 |\n|  | 27 | Ravena, str. | 2,134 |  | 117 |  |  |  | 117 |\n|  | נן | Carisbrooke, str. | 960 |  | 71 |  |  |  | 71 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 187 |\n|  | 24 | Oceanic, str. | 2,441 |  | 35 |  |  |  | 35 |\n|  | 25 | Telemachus, str. | 1,421 |  | Kidley |  | San Francisco | 122 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 122 |  |  |  | 122 |\n|  | 29 | Stentor, str. | 1,304 |  | Wilcox |  | Straits Settlements | 64 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 64 |  |  |  | 64 |\n|  | 29 | Danube, str. | 561 |  | Hill |  |  | 127 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 127 |  |  |  | 127 |\n|  | 30 | Hesperia, str. | 1,136 | German | Hopkins |  | Bangkok | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 100 |  |  |  | 100 |\n| Sept. | I | Diomed, str. | 1,241 | British | Bradly |  |  | 142 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 102 |  |  |  | 192 |\n|  | * | Mirzapore, str. | 2,270 |  | Stewart |  | Straits Settlements | 228 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 228 |  |  |  | 228 |\n|  | ** | Suez, str. | 1,390 |  | Wherton |  |  | 324 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 324 |  |  |  | 324 |\n|  |  | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,302 |  |  |  | Port Darwin | 30 | 197 |\n|  | ** | Strathleven, str. | 1,588 |  |  |  | Hopkins | Bangkok | 110 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 110 |  |  |  | 110 |\n|  | 3 |  |  |  | 262 |  | Webb | Straits Settlements | 202 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Metcalfe Jones | San Francisco | 120 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 250 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 250 |  | Kirkpatrick |  | 266 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 260 |  |  |  | 260 |\n|  | 13 |  |  |  | 50 |  | Clanchy Peterson | Bangkok | 50 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Honolulu | 285 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 254 |  | Jackson | Straits Settlements | 1831 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 185 |  | Perrin Dodd |  | 86 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 86 |  |  |  | 86 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 243 |  | McConnell |  | 241 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 280 |  |  |  | 230 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 60 |  | Pearson | Cooktown | 60 |\n|  | 17 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 196 |\n|  | 5 | Loudoun Castle, str. | 1,675 |  | Marshall |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 21 |  |  |  | 81 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Wise | Townsville | 90 |\n|  | 6 | City of Tokio, str. | 3,448 | American | Manry |  | San Francisco | 260 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 260 |  |  |  | 260 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Brisbane | 198 |\n|  | \" | Dale, str. | 645 | British | Thompson |  | Bangkok | 48 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 13 |  |  | Melbourne | 58 |\n|  | 31 | Danube, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 8 | Glentruin, str. | 1,935 |  | Hogg |  | Straits Settlements | 168 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 168 |  |  |  | 168 |\n|  | 120 June |  |  |  |  |  |  | Bangkok | 67 |\n|  | 2 | Oceanic, str. | 2,140 |  | Metcalfe |  | San Francisco | 141 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 141 |  |  |  | 141 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Townsville | 7 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 121 |\n|  | 2 | Avoca, str. | 904 |  |  |  |  |  | 122 |\n|  | 8 | Moray, str. | 1,427 |  | Murray |  | Straits Settlements | 33 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 33 |  |  |  | 33 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 200 |\n|  | 9 | Bowen, str. | 644 |  | Darke |  | Sydney | 22 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 107 |  |  |  | 107 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Butcher |  | 123 |\n|  | 15 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 124 |\n|  | 3 | Japan, str. | 1,865 |  | Gardner |  |  | 200 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 200 |  |  | Dunedin, N.Z. | 42 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Melbourne | 27 |\n|  | 27 |  |  |  | 161 |  |  |  | 161 |\n|  | 4 | Nestor, str. | 1,458 |  | Jago |  |  | 368 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 128 |\n|  | 4 | Jason, str. | #68 |  |  |  |  |  | 201 |\n|  | 10 | Daphne, str. | 1,596 | Austro-Hung. | Doncich |  | Straits Settlements | 36 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 36 |  |  |  | 36 |\n|  | 4 | Glenavon, str. | 1,411 |  | Brown |  |  | 102 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 102 |\n|  | 10 | Elvira Dovale | 1,937 |  |  |  | Taylor |  | 981 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 98 |  |  |  | 98 |\n|  | 8 | Glaucus, str. | $3 |  |  |  |  |  | 203 |\n|  | 12 | Consolation, str. | 1,368 | Hawaiian | Pementel |  | Bangkok | 41 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 151 |  |  |  | 41 |\n|  | 31 | Cheang Hock Kian, str. |  |  | 101 |  | Jackson | Port Darwin | 47 |\n|  |  |  | 956 |  | 101 |  |  |  | 101 |\n|  | 10 | Nepal, str. | 3471 | 16 | 363 |  |  |  | 204 |\n|  | 12 | Ocean, str. | 1,039 |  | Webber |  | Cooktown | 19 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 89 |  |  |  | 71 |\n|  | 10 | Euphrates, str. | 2,065 |  | Murray |  | Brisbane | 2,065 |\n|  |  |  | 3,299 |  | 98 |  |  |  | 98 |\n|  | 11 | Dale, str. | 1: |  | Mitchell |  |  | 92 |\n|  |  |  | 645 |  | 92 |  |  |  | 92 |\n|  | 13 | Rosetta, str. | 2,250 |  | Harlow |  | Straits Settlements | 99 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 99 |  |  |  | 99 |\n|  | 13 | Gaelong, str. |  |  | Thompson |  | Bangkok | 58 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 58 |  |  |  | 58 |\n|  | 13 | Bellerophon, str. | 1,396 |  | Freeman |  |  | 324 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | #24 |  |  |  | #24 |\n|  | 14 | Atholl, str. | 1,135 |  | Atkinson |  | Straits Settlements | 93 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 33 |  |  |  | 33 |\n|  |  |  | 923 |  |  |  | Dunena |  | 134 |\n|  | 15 | Consolation, str. |  |  | 115 |  |  |  | 115 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 116 |  |  |  | 116 |\n|  | 14 | Carisbrooke, str. | 960 |  | Wharton |  |  | 412 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 8 |  |  |  | $80 |\n|  |  |  | 763 |  |  |  | Young | Bangkok | 77 |\n|  | 16 | Polluce, str. |  |  | 106 |  |  |  | 106 |\n|  | 19 | Marlborough, str. | 1,175. |  | Sanderson |  |  | 8221 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 322 |  |  |  | 322 |\n|  | 16 | Achilles, str. | 1,418 | Austro-Hung | G. Rogusio |  | Straits Settlements | 45 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 45 |  |  |  | 45 |\n|  | 19 | Prinz Heinrich, str. | 872 | German | Hofman |  | Bangkok | 38 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 38 |  |  |  | 38 |\n|  | 16 | Marlborough, str. | 1,175 | 1,529 | British | Anderson Sanderson |  | 95 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 90 |  |  |  | 90 |\n|  | 22 | Gleneagles, str. | 1,838 |  | Gas800 |  | Straits Settlements | 130 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 130 |  |  |  | 130 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 327 |  |  |  | 327 |\n|  | +1 | Orestes, str. | 1,323 |  | Webster |  |  | 334 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 834 |  |  |  | 834 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 15 |\n|  | Carried forward... |  | 185,219 |  | 21,560 | 198 |  |  | 21,838 |\n|  | Carried forward... |  | 288,820 |  | 35,463 | 345 |  |  | 36,016 |",
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        "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "## RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong,-(Continued).\n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATION ALITY | ADULTS | CHILDREN | TOTAL | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Brought forward..... |  | 288,820 |  | 95,453 | 345 | 187 |  |  |\n| 213 | Sept. 21 | Meath, str. | 1,397 | British | 50 |  | 50 | Johnson | Port Darwin, Cooktown |\n| 214 | 22 | Rajanettianahar, str. | 933 |  | 70 |  | 70 | Hopkins | Bangkok |\n| 215 | 22 | Belgic, str. | 1,716 |  | 3 | 10 | 328 | Davison | San Francisco, Port Darwin |\n| 216 | 23 | Brisbane, str. | 891 |  | 38 |  | 38 | Craig | Cooktown, Sydney |\n| 217 | 24 | Cheang Hock Kian, str. |  |  | 12 |  | 497 | Webb | Straits Settlements |\n| 218 | 28 | Geelong, str. | 1,139 |  | 174 |  | 174 | Webber |  |\n| 219 | 28 | Altonower, str. | 1,611 |  | 160 |  | 150 | Murray |  |\n| 220 | 29 | Khiva, str. | 1,500 |  | 12 |  | 72 | De Horne |  |\n| 221 | 29 | Cassandra, str. | 1,097 | German | 19 |  | 119 | Abreus | Port Darwin |\n| 222 | 30 | Hungarian, str. | 984 | British | 93 |  |  | Wise | Cooktown, Melbourne |\n| 223 | October 1 | Lennox, str. | 1,327 |  | 1 |  | 152 | Scott | Straits Settlements |\n| 224 | 1 | Danube, str. | 361 |  | 3 |  | 43 | Clanchy | Bangkok |\n| 225 |  | City of Peking, str. | 8,448 | American | 614 |  | 611 | Berry | San Francisco |\n| 226 |  | Japan, str. | 1,845 | British | 282 |  | 282 | Gardner | Straits Settlements |\n| 227 | 7 | Ameer Head | 1,300 |  | 19 |  | 200 | Roper |  |\n| 228 |  | Lorne, str. | 1,034 |  | 14 |  | 158 | McKechnie |  |\n| 229 | 8 | Patroclus, str. | 1,650 |  | 100 |  | 100 | White |  |\n| 230 | 13 | Kashgar, str. | 1,575 |  | 128 |  | 128 | Murray |  |\n| 231 | 14 | Conscription, str. | 761 |  |  |  | 46 | Young | Bangkok |\n| 232 | 15, 17 | Menelaus, str., Catterthun, str. | 1,559, 1,407 |  | 400, 17 |  | 100, 92 | Lapage, Miller | Straits Settlements, Cooktown, Sydney, Melbourne |\n| 233 | 17 | Canton, str. | 1,095 |  | 300 |  | 300 | Jaques | Straits Settlements |\n| 234 | 19 | Norden, str. | 778 | Danish | 171 |  | 171 | Rasmussen |  |\n| 235 | 19 | Gaelic, str. | 1,713 | British | 460 |  | 460 | Ridley | San Francisco |\n| 236 |  | Yorkshire, str. | 1,426 |  |  |  | 176 | Longley | Straits Settlements |\n| 237 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 238 | 25 | Glenlyon, str. | 1,879 |  | 12 |  | 50 | Donaldson |  |\n| 239 | 27 | P&O steamer, Walior, str. | 1,196, 1,719 |  | 168, 63 | 10 | 178, 1 | McKenzie, Adamson |  |\n| 240 | 28 | Vorwarts, str. | 1,816 | Austro-Hung |  |  |  | Marussig |  |\n| 241 | 25 | Cheang Hock Kian, str. | 955 | British | 147 |  | 147 | Webb |  |\n| 242 | 28 | Miramar, str. | 800 |  | 188 | 146 | 17 | Clarke | Port Darwin |\n| 243 |  | Nelson, str. | 521 |  | 27 |  |  | Thom | Townsville, Cooktown |\n| 244 | 29 | Prinz Heinrich, str. | 872 | German |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 245 | 31 | Auchises, str. | 1,389 | British |  |  | 56 | Hetmann | Bangkok |\n| 246 | 31 |  |  |  |  |  | 221 | Jackson | Straits Settlements |\n| 247 | Nov. | Strathmore, str. | 1,383 |  | 164 | 35 |  | Rowell |  |\n| 248 |  | Gordon Castle, str. | 1,320 |  | 100 |  |  | Waring |  |\n| 249 | 1 | Danube, str. | 561 |  |  |  | 52 | Clanchy | Bangkok |\n| 250 | 4 | Carisbrooke, str. | 980 |  |  |  | 160 | Whacton | Straits Settlements |\n| 251 | 6 | Glenavon, str. | 1,836 |  |  |  |  | Taylor |  |\n| 252 |  | Sze, str. | 1,290 |  | 280 |  | 280 | Dodd |  |\n| 253 | 7 | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,892 |  | 178 |  | 178 | Mestavisu |  |\n| 254 | 7 | Oceanic, str. | 2,440 |  | 826 |  | 826 | Metcalfe | San Francisco, Port Darwin, Thursday Island, Cooktown |\n| 255 | 8 | Menmuir, str. | 1,247 |  |  |  | 165 | Elis | Townsville, Sydney, Dunedin, N.Z., Melbourne |\n| 256 |  | Cyclops, str. | 1,403 |  |  |  | 210 | Butler | Straits Settlements |\n| 257 | 12 | Thibet, str. | 1,671 |  | 173 |  | 238 | Jordan |  |\n| 258 | 12 | Phoenix, str. | 789 | German |  |  | 173 | Behrens |  |\n| 259 | 14 | Hector, str. | 1,589 | British | 208 |  | 208 | Billinge |  |\n| 260 | 16 | Glaucus, str. | 1,687 |  | 200 |  | 200 | Jackson |  |\n| 261 | 16 | Consolation, str. | 761 |  |  |  | 104 | Yong | Bangkok, Port Darwin, Thursday Island |\n| 262 | 18 | Bowen, str. | 844 |  |  |  |  | Darke | Townsville, Rockhampton, Sydney, Dunedin, N.Z. |\n| 263 | 18 | Decima, str. | 1,151 | German |  |  | 204 | Peterson | Port Darwin |\n| 264 | 19 | Lord of the Isles, str. | 1,586 | British |  |  | 250 | Felgate | Straits Settlements |\n| 265 | 19 | Jason, str. | 1,432 |  | 13 |  | 169 | Brows |  |\n| 266 | 23 | Verona, str. | 984 |  | 160 |  |  |  |  |\n| 267 | 24 | Rajarattianuhar, str. | 793 |  | 103 |  | 948 | Ashdown |  |\n| 268 | 24 | Fyen, str. | 909 | Danish | 45 |  |  | Grove | Bangkok, Port Darwin |\n| 269 |  | Crusader, str. | 647 | British |  |  | 20 |  | Bowen, Cooktown |\n| 270 | 25 | City of Tokio, str. | 3,448 | American | 851 |  | 851 | Maury | San Francisco |\n| 271 |  | Canton, str. | 1,095 | British |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements |\n| 272 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 273 | Dec. 5 | Leanos, str. |  |  |  |  | 300 | Jaynes | Straits Settlements |\n| 274 | 5 | Nestor, str. | 956 |  |  |  | 600 | Webb |  |\n| 275 | 5 | Geelong, str. | 848 |  | 10 |  | 572 | Davies |  |\n| 276 | 7 | Dale, str. | 1,201 |  | 29 | 20 |  | Parke |  |\n| 277 |  | Cheang Hock Kian, str. | 1,419 |  | 150 |  | 150 | Webber |  |\n| 278 | 29 | Baduvishiro, sta. | 561 |  |  |  |  | Clanchy | Bangkok |\n| 279 | 30 | Genfalloch, str. | 1,327 |  |  |  | 382 | Scott | Straits Settlements |\n| 280 |  | Danube, str. | 1,439 |  | 332 |  |  | Jago |  |\n|  | Carried forward..... |  | 376,491 |  | 38,151 | 151 | 361 |  |  |\n\n## XXII-DIAGRAM of Tonnage entered at Hongkong, from 1867 to 1881 inclusive.\n\nBLUE LINE represents Junk Tonnage only,  \nRED LINE represents Foreign Shipping Tonnage only,  \nTHICK BLACK LINE represents entire trade in Foreign Ships and Junks.\n\nTons  \n4,500,000  \n4,400,000  \n4,300,000  \n4,200,000  \n4,100,000  \n4,000,000  \n3,900,000  \n3,800,000  \n3,700,000  \n3,600,000  \n3,500,000  \n3,400,000  \n3,300,000  \n3,200,000  \n3,100,000  \n3,000,000  \n2,900,000  \n2,800,000  \n2,700,000  \n2,600,000  \n2,500,000  \n2,400,000  \n2,300,000  \n2,200,000  \n2,100,000  \n2,000,000  \n1,900,000  \n1,800,000  \n1,700,000  \n1,600,000  \n1,500,000  \n1,400,000  \n1,300,000  \n1,200,000  \n1,100,000  \n1,000,000  \n\nHarbour Department, Hongkong, 18th March, 1882.\n\n**II. G. TOMSETT,  \nHarbour Master**",
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        "content_text": "# 371\n\n## 24\n\nThe Midfeather is a cast iron partition composed of a series of webbed and flanged plates set on edge, one upon another and bolted together, the edges being planed and watertight joints secured by caulking of rust cement between the plate-flanges. At an interval of every 21 feet vertical, the midfeather is pierced by a circular orifice with flanged lip to which is bolted an 18-inch sluice valve worked by gearing from the top. There are five of these valves, each connecting at its own level with a vertical standard delivery pipe that stands in the dry compartment of the valve well parallel to the Midfeather.\n\nThe advantage of the vertical pipe is obvious in that it admits of the delivery of the water under pressure while it keeps every portion of the valve gearing and outlet culvert dry and accessible for inspection or repair, without the inconvenience that attends the usual method of delivery by which the water is dashed in the form of a cataract from the Sluice valve above; the floor of the valve well whence it escapes through the outlet culvert.\n\nOver the valve well on the top of the dam will be erected a small valve house from which the daily supply to the Town will be regulated by the manipulation of the spindles that connect with the valves. The valve house should have a glass roof to enable the light to penetrate to the bottom of the valve well. The minor features of the Ironwork in the well are sufficiently detailed in the drawings and do not require any further explanation.\n\n## 25\n\nInlet Culvert. The submerged or inlet Culvert running under the dam from the reservoir into the valve well will be built at a level",
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        "content_text": "# RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong,~(Continued)\n\n373\n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATION-ALITY | ADULTS | CHILDREN | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Brought forward |  |  |  | 348,854 | 45,738 | 1,363 |  |  |\n|  | Brought forward |  |  |  | £39,508 | 60,520 | 1,862 |  | 63,078 |\n| 36 | October 4 | City of Sydney, str. | 3,966 | American |  |  | Rai | Brisbane |  |\n|  | 4 | Kong Bong, str. | 302 | British | 320 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 348 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bangkok | 37 |  |  | 37 |\n| 240 | July 22 | Whampoa, str. | 1,159 | British | 1 |  | Hant | Sydney | 199 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | LOW | 319 |  |  |  |\n| 241 |  | Glenfias, str. | 1,409 |  | Jacola |  |  | Straits Settlements | 30 |\n|  | 31 | Wing Sang, str. | 1,517 |  | Ste. Croix | 180 | 200 | Melbourne |  |\n| 242 | 24 | Telemachus, str. | 1,421 |  | Jones |  |  | Straits Settlements | 260 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 321 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 26 | Patroclus, str. | 1,386 |  | Thompson | 156 |  |  |  |\n| 243 | + | Tai Sang, str. | 1,305 |  | Davies | 104 | 10 |  |  |\n| 244 | 26 | Kashgar, str. | 1,515 |  | Gadil | 120 |  |  | 4 |\n| 322 | 6 | Tupoy de Lorne, str. | 2,663 | French | Comp | 190 | 10 | 200 |  |\n| 323 | 4 | Picciola, str. | 875 | German | Nixsen | 273 |  | 285 | 139 |\n| 324 | 6 | Livingstone | 531 |  | 215 | 1 |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Mirzapore, sta | 2,164 |  | Harvey | 57 |  |  | #27 |\n| 325 | 7 | Angers, str. | 246 |  | 30 |  | Phra Chu Chou Khao, S | Bangkok |  |\n| 247 | 31 | Menelaus, str. | 1,300 |  | Nelson |  |  | Straits Settlements | 107 |\n| 327 | & | Titan, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 248 | August 3 | Cheang Hook Kian, str. | 954 |  | neph | 243 | 100 | 8 | 242 |\n| H | 3 | Glamis Castle, str. | 1,558 |  | Amy | 291 |  | 300 | 324 |\n| 9 |  | Nurnberg, str. | 250 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Japan, str. | 1,845 |  | Gariluer | 496 |  |  |  |\n|  | 11 | Amigo, str. | 1,554 | British | 853 |  | 2,159 | German | 771 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Stiffens |  | Pinkham | Honolulu | 183 |\n|  | 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 188 |\n|  |  | Hesperia, str. | 8 |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 146 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Christiansen | 103 | 11 |  |  |\n|  |  | Mongkut, str. | 2,077 | British | 1,186 | German |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Brown | 252 |  | 200 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Loff Berdrow |  |  | Bangkok | 37 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 40 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1751 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Samuelsen | 18 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2251 |\n|  | 4 | City of Rio de Janeiro, str. | 2,276 | American | Cobl |  |  | San Francisco | 164 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 164 |\n| 231 | 11 | Clara, str. | 674 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 252 | ** | Deucalion, sår. | 1,374 | British | Asquith |  |  | Straits Settlements | 152 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 137 |\n| 332 | 15 | Cheang flock Kian, str. | 956 | British | Christiansen Webb |  |  | Bangkok | 35 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 35 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | $18 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 360 |\n| 253 | 11 | Fidelio, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 254 | 6 | Gaolie, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 255 | ++ | Poseidon, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 256 | 9 | Protus. str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 257 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 258 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 259 | +7 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 260 | י |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 261 | 10 | Mongkut, str. | 2,601 | British | Brock | 852 | German | 201 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16 |\n|  | 12 | Pandora, str. | 2510 | Austriat |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 12 | Dardanus, str. | 1,150 | German |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 13 | Oder, str. | 1,781 | Austrian |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 13 | Wing Sang, str. | 1,536 | British |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1,891 | German |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Pembrokeshire, str. | 1,717 |  | learne |  |  | San Francisco | 167 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  | 172 |\n|  | 18 | Benarty, str. | 1,119 |  | Doueich |  |  | Straits Settlements | 130 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 443 |  |  |  | 39% |\n|  | 18 | Agamemnon, str. | 1,522 |  | Sorensen Loff |  |  | Bangkok | אנון |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 126 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 18 | Atholl, str. | 923 |  | Williams |  |  |  | 29 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Wilding Coulter |  |  |  | 30 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Le Boultelier | 210 |  | G | 280 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 155 |  |  |  | 176 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 225 |  |  | 2 | 23X |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 137 |  |  |  | 140 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | R$7 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 18 | Tannadice, str. | 1,408 |  | Radonicich |  |  | Straits Settlements | 230 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 234 |\n| 338 | 19 | Amphitrite, str. | 2,486 | Austrian | Cmig Gelcich |  |  | Australian Porta | 200 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 300 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 397 |\n| 333 | 19 | Arralocu Apear, str. | 1,392 | British | peiffer |  |  |  | 154 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 160 |\n|  |  | Tounun, str. | 1,282 | Chinese | 1,517 | British |  | St. Croix |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | } |  |  |  | N |\n|  |  |  |  |  | BIL |  |  |  |  |\n| 21 |  | Moray, str. | 1427 | British | Mactavish Marsden Duncan | 251 |  | 275 | 327 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 337 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 231 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 250 |  |  | 262 |  |\n|  | 16 | Cyclops, str. | 1,403 |  | Nish | 182 |  | 142 |  |\n| 263 | 16 | City of Rio de Janeiro, str. | 2,275 | American | Cobb |  |  | San Francisco | 503 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 503 |\n|  | 16 | Palyhyrnia, str. | 1,055 | German | Nagel | 85 |  | 101 | $43 |\n| 22 |  | Taichiow, str. | 862 | British | Newton |  |  | Bangkok | 99 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 6 |  |  |  | 116 |\n| 264 | lê ị | Para Clon kho,str. | 1,012 | British | Walton |  |  | Bangkok | 48 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | B |  |  |  |  |\n| 22 |  | Fred. P. Litchfield. | 1042 | American | Young |  |  | Honolulu | 162 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 6 |  |  |  | 175 |\n| 265 | 18 | Gleneagles, str. | 2,000 |  | Hogg |  |  | Straits Settlemeuls | 287 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  |  | भ |\n| 25 |  | Tai Sang, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 266 | 20 | City of New York, str. | 1,964 | American | Searle |  |  | San Francisco | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 160 |  |  |  |  |\n| 26 |  | Diomed, str. | 1,500 | British | Davies |  |  | Straits Settlements | 480 |\n|  |  |  | 1,471 |  |  |  |  |  | 12 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 500 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bigley | 138 | 2 |  | 144 |\n| 267 | 21 | Laeries, sir. | 1,391 | British | Scale |  |  | Straits Settlements | 146 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | B |  |  |  | 347 |\n| 27 |  | Orion, str. | 1,833 | Austrian | Matiazzi | 200 |  | •224 |  |\n| 268 | 21 | Taichiow, str. | 862 |  | Newton |  |  | Bangkok | 34 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 34 |  |  |  | 346 |\n| 27 |  | Niobe, str. | 1,672 | German |  |  |  | Port Darwin | 339 |\n|  |  | Kong Beng, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Townsville | 1 |\n| 269 | 14 | Edward May |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 21 | Guthrie, str. | 1,494 |  | Shannon |  |  | Brisbane | 11 |\n| 28 |  | Glenie, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Sydney | 30 |\n|  |  | Bellerophon, str. | 1,396 |  |  |  |  |  | Melbourne | 45 |\n|  | 3 | 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3:3 |\n|  | Nov. | Changsha, str. | 1963 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 270 | 23 | Anjer Hand, str. | 1.800 |  | Macey |  |  | Straits Settlements | 135 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | HO |  |  |  | 3+4 |\n|  |  | Ajax, str. |  |  | Laga |  |  |  |  |\n| 271 | 24 | Kaisow, str. | 1.984 |  | Thomson | 210 |  |  | 20 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 300 |  |  |  | 39 |\n|  | 1 | Electra, str. | 1.162 | German |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 272 | 26 | Larne, str. | 1,085 |  | Hunter | 424 | 116 |  | 350 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 230 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 1 | Whampoa, str. | 1,100 | British |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 890 | American | 2.691 | British |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Plaff |  | Jones |  | Johusou |\n|  |  |  | 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|  |  |  | Cooktown | 2 |\n| 275 | 28 | Phra Chola Chom Klao, s. | 1,012 |  | Lightwood |  |  | Bangkok | 62 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 67 |  |  |  |  |\n| 276 | Sem. | 1 Hydra | 785 | German | Binge |  |  | Honolulu | 1755 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 180 |  |  |  | 37 |\n|  |  | Catterthun, str. | 1,400 |  | : Darke |  |  |  |  |\n| 277 | 1 | Kong Beng, str. | 842 | British | Jones |  |  | Bangkok | 34 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | #1 |  |  | Townsville | 13 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Brisbane | 2 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 97 |  |  |  | 31 |\n| 278 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 279 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 280 | 4 | Picciola, str. | 1.017 | British | Niessen |  |  | Doncaster |  |\n| 281 | 4 | Flintshire, str. | 1,538 |  | Webster |  |  | Straits Settlements | 297 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | N |  |  |  |  |\n| 282 | 6 | Amigo, str. | 875 | Germat | Bertelsen |  |  | Melbourne | 921 |\n|  |  | Prometheus, str. |  |  | 107 |  |  |  | 116 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Adelaide | 100 |\n|  |  | Duburg, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  | FOR |\n|  |  |  | 1.729 |  | 1 |  |  |  | 10 |\n| 379 | 3 | Rohilla, str. | 2.251 |  | Jaques Barratt |  |  | Straits Settlements | 357 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 378 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 55 |  |  |  | 771 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | German |  |  |  | 450 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  |  |  | 409 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 300 |  |  | i |  |\n|  |  | \" Fra Chula (\"lot Kha, s. | 1.01% |  | Lightwood |  |  | Bangkok | 10 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | $7 |  |  |  | 983 |\n|  | 6 | Tai Sang, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 284 | 6 | Zambesi, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 286 | 6 | Achilles, str. | 1505 | British | Davies |  |  |  | 480 |\n|  |  |  | 1.540 |  |  |  |  |  | 500 |\n|  |  |  | 1.528 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4: |  | Duburg. st. | 921 | German | Bertelsen |  |  | Straits Settlements | 291 |\n|  | 9 |  |  |  | 9 |  |  |  | 304 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Cole | 214 |  | 201 | 362 |\n| + |  | Braunschweig, str. | 2.150 |  | Stormer |  |  |  | 178 |\n|  | 8 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 178 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Auderson | 29 |  |  | 343 |\n| 8 |  | Lombardy, str. | 1.571 | British | Webber |  |  |  | 30 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  | 1 |\n| 286 | ד | 7 City of Peking, str. | 3,129 | American |  |  |  | San Francisco | 271 |\n|  | 8 | Mongkat, str. | 859 | British | Dearborn Loff |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Japan, str. | 1,863 |  | \" |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Gardner | 225 | 17 |  | 250 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Bangkok | 56 |\n| 305 | 8 | City of New York, str. | 1,964 | American. | Searle |  |  | San Francisen | 5091 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 509 |  |  |  | 509 |\n| 288 | 10 | Neckar, str. | 1,870 | Germa | Baur |  |  | Straits Settlements | 73 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 73 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Medusa, str. | 1,775 | Austrian | Pevini |  |  | Straits Settlements | 234 |\n|  | 11 |  |  |  | 11 |  |  |  | 29% |\n| 289 | 11 | Bormida, str, | 190 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 11 | Thisbe. str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 291 | # | Khiva, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 292 | 13 | Ningehow, str. | 1.490 | 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7001 |\n| 295 | 14 | Danube, str. | 563 |  | Anderson |  |  | Bungkok | 64 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 69 |  |  |  |  |\n| 372 | 15 | tilazce, str. | 1,764 |  | Johnson |  |  | Straits Settlements | 160 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  |  |\n| 296 | 14: | China, ser, | 1,993 | German | Have |  |  |  | 361 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 378 |  |  |  |  |\n| 15 |  | Sarpedon, str. | 1.590 |  | Crimes | 250 |  |  |  |\n| 297 | 12 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 15: | Clieveden, str. | 1,185 | British | Gibb |  |  | Ba | 41 |\n|  |  | Denbighshire, str. | 1,663 |  | ! Cuming | 274 |  |  | POR |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | * |\n|  | 15 | Fidelio, str. | 852 | German | Brock |  |  | Straits Settlements | المنزل |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ** |\n|  | 17 | Iphigenia, str. | 1.059 | Germ | · Valtmer | 110 | 3 |  | 209 |\n|  | 13 | Cheang Hock Kian. str. | 926 | British | Webb |  |  |  | 324 |\n|  | 18 | Orestes, HUT. | 1.323 | British | ! Hutchinson | 150 |  |  |  |\n| 300 | 17 | Prinz Alexander, str. | 1.911 | German | Bekert | 335 |  |  | San |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 377 |\n|  | 10 | Hydaspes, str. | 1.800 |  | Scrivener | 62 |  |  |  |\n| 301 |  | Is Antenor. str. | 1.376 | British | Freeman | 390 |  |  | 396 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ais |\n|  | 20 | Gleneagles, str. | 1,838 |  | Park | 225 |  |  |  |\n| 302 | 18 | Cambodia, str. | 3.969 |  | Wildgoose | 30 | 3 |  | 372 |\n| 22 |  | Taichiuw, str. | 882 |  | Newton |  |  | Bangkuk | 41 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  |  |  |\n| 303 | 20 | Glamorganshire, str. | 1,843 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 304 | 23 | Ravenia. str. | 2,038 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 305 | 28: | Vorwaerts, str. | 1.574 | Austrian |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 306 | 23 | San Pablo, str. | 2,113 | American |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 307 | 25 | Japan, str. | 1,865 | British | Davies |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | : Daniell |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Radonicich |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Reed |  |  |  | 157 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | : Gardner |  |  |  | 160 |\n|  | 23 | Fidelio, str. | $32 | German | Brock |  |  | Straits Settlements | 370 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 44 |  |  |  |  |\n| 24 |  | Parthia, str. | 2,085 | British | Brough: | 320 |  |  | 543 |\n|  | 25 | Piccivia, str. |  |  |  |  |  | San Francisco | 3901 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 460 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 25 | Guthrie. str. | 1.493 | British |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 350 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 350 |  |  |  |  |\n| 384 | 24 | Titanin, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 308 | - |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 25 | Glenorchy, str. | 1.822 |  | Godre |  |  |  | 28 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 30 |  |  |  | 5 |\n|  | 26 | Bentedi, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 309 | 27 | Palamed, str. | 1,536 |  | Jackson | 127 |  |  | 478 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 29 |  | Wing Sang, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 310 | 28 | Benlarig, str. | 1,482 |  | Clarke | 34 |  | 2!!! | \" |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 29 | Amigo, str. | 348 |  |  |  |  | Thursday Island |  |\n|  |  | City of Peking, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Cooktown |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | en Dec. |  |\n|  | 1 | Ulaucus, str. | 1.382 | British | 875 | Germin | 2,011 | Austrínu | 900 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | British | 1,517 |  | 771 | German |\n|  |  |  | 3,120 | American |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Nissen |  |  | Shannon |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Morsa Riddori |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Ste. Croix |  |  | Samuelson |  |  | Dearborn |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Tannab |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 198 |  |  | Australian Ports | 136 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 248 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 20 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 138 |  |  |  | 350 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | A TO |\n|  |  |  |  |  | ·22*** |  |  |  | ·**** 22 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 760 |  |  | 2 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | INO |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 281) |  |  |  | 11 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 156 |  |  |  | 250 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 46 |  |  |  | : |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 373 |  |  |  | 871 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 200 |  |  |  | 130 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | 288 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 148 |  |  |  | 360 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 192 |  |  |  | 192 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | San Francisco | 677 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 677 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 1631 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  |  | 166 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Townsville |  |\n| 311 | 29 | Airbe, str. | 1.492 |  | Ells |  |  | Brisbane | 3M |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 161 |  |  |  | 331 |\n|  |  | Khiva, str. | 1.410. |  | Hason | 111 |  |  | 111 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Dunedin, N.Z. |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Sydney |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Melbourne |  |\n| 312 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 313 | 30 | Raffaele Rubattino, str. | 3,044 | Italian | Merello |  |  | Straits Settlements |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 虽 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Plura Chom Klau, str. | 1,012 |  | Walton |  |  | Bangkok | 70 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 72 |  |  |  |  |\n| 4 |  | Surat, str. | 1.677: |  | Nautes |  |  | Straits Settlements | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 100 |  |  |  | 19H |\n| 4 |  | James Watt, str. | 1,024 |  | Petrie | 118 |  | 120 | ERK |\n|  |  |  | 1,497 | British |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 314 | 30 | Telamon, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 315 |  | Phra tinh Chen Lilao, đ | 1,865 |  | 1.012: |  |  |  |  |\n| 316 | October 1 | Ching Wo. str. | 1.550 |  | Thomson Jackson Lightwood ? {Hag | 121 |  | 115 | Bangkok |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | الناز |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 160 |  |  | Straits Settlements | 150 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | 11 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Carried forward |  |  | 459.503 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Carried forward |  |  | 60.320 | 1.862 |  |  | 63.076 |\n|  |  | 6 Ulysses, str. |  |  | Alden Bessc... |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | 7 San Pablo, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | 7 Arratoon Apear, str. | 1.392 | British | $21 | German | 2005 | Austrian |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Reed |  |  |  | 1.300 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bremner |  |  |  | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 102 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | 1 Duburg, str. |  |  | 812 | American | O'Brien | Honolulu | 283 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 230 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Elektra, str. | 2.113 |  |  |  |  | San Francisco | 618 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 618 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Carried forward |  |  | Martavish Bortelsen Ragusin |  |  | Straits Settlements | 207 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 309 |  |  |  | 215 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 221 |  |  |  | 328 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 336 |  |  |  | 381,330 |\n|  |  | Carried forward |  |  |  |  |  |  | 78,966 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 2,358 | 811 |  |  | 390 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 82,727 |  |  |  |  |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]",
        "content_text": "# Enclosure 4\n\n## Signatures\n\nStui a facurll.\n\nSha \n\n* Henry J. Holmes\n* Cheveux \n* Francis Webber\n* Arnes Bowles\n* John Hastings\n* Ho. Nippon.\n\n**FOR THE RICHMOND TERRACE ESTATE AND BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED**\n\n* John Wallmott\n  * SECRETARY\n\nME \n\n* The Howard\n* The Hongkong... to hanepra\n* Sock boy 17d\n* HW Dan's\n  * bey his ally lach,\n* Wards. I. to holes.\n* Fund. I. 11. Booled). Imoai,\n* Schindlate to Why Mosely.\n* Gibb som plour lo\n* Pedongas Laprick the Chillig,\n* Holter fohskirst\n\n**QUERBO BANK OF INDIA**\n\n* AVAARALLIA ANTITRA\n* Mshitehead\n  * MANAGER, HONGKONG\n* FOR THE NEW ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION LIMITED\n  * Sustainto.\n  * Carlowong\n  * Warton. Andres Ironstow\n  * Menys\n  * WWDavies.\n  * MWhitehead\n* NORTH Soughtrid\n  * Erdutier\n    * MANAGER HONG KONG\n\n* And Sassoon Sous le Entoronal\n\n15 other signatures not kept\n\n## Correspondence\n\nPage 12 APR\n\n### Colonial Secretary to Messrs Wotton & Deacon\n\n(Copy) No 259.\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th March, 1888.**\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI am directed by the Governor to inform you that His Excellency has given to the petition, your letter of the 6th instant, the careful consideration which is due no less to the importance of its contents, than to the weight of the signatures attached to it.\n\nIt appears to emanate from a large number of leading members of the community belonging to three classes whose cases are presented separately:\n\n(1) Merchants, Traders and Landowners.\n\nMessrs Wotton & Deacon...\n\n(2) Civil...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889",
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        "title": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889",
        "content_text": "## MINUTE PAPER\n\nI am almost inclined to think that the Bank is only a branch, the Head Office being elsewhere. \n\nThe Ordinance delegating its powers to the Bank at Manila gives it an undertaking to deposit approved securities to the amount of their note issue in the Colonies, details to be settled later.\n\n2 May\n\nI think it is clear that the Bank is impliedly precluded by the Ordinance which incorporates it from establishing an Agency at Manila.\n\nI think it would be wise to inform S.G. and instruct him to telegraph the Governor to offer no objection to the Bank establishing such an agency, lest any unfortunate consequences to the Bank or the Community at large ensue.\n\nThe mere announcement of the Bank to Manila authorities that they may perhaps induce them to listen to the terms proposed in the despatch of 20/03/001, but I will leave it to them to move the Governor for directions. I have telegraphed to try to get the Bank's views by letter No. 827. Find the disallowance of the Talent.\n\n1572\n\nI respect that the Bank have misled us as to the real position of things in regard to their litigation with Gurado. It is time that they have been allowed to bring an action and take proceedings in bankruptcy against Gurado. Their statutes must have been recognized by Custom.\n\nWe should deal very fully with the D.O. and I should like things to be passed in the meantime, pending minute.\n\nDiagration fudal unterations Manifests cameral Run 3/5\n\nI think it should be carefully considered whether we are justified in dealing with the Draft. It must recall portions of the Bank. Is it not questionable whether Colonial legislation can interfere with the foreign Corporation beyond the Colony?\n\nWon the N. Webbers' opposition, I should be loath to get it. For not seeing why it was bad for the Bank at Madrid or Manila, I had not passed the draft.\n\nI Report way's A.T..",
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        "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]",
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        "content_text": "513\n\n(13)\n\n1.-Report of Case tried before Mr. E. Robinson.\n\nPOLICE COURT.\n\n18th September.\n\nTHE CANTON STEAMERS AND THE OPIUM SMUGGLING TRADE.\n\nCaptain Lefavour, of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co.'s steamer Honam, was charged with an offence under the Opium Ordinance. Mr. Webber appeared to prosecute on behalf of the Opium Farmer, and Mr. Francis, Q.C., appeared for the defence.\n\nMr. Webber said he proposed in this case to make three distinct charges against the defendant, first, with having prepared Opium in his possession without a valid certificate from the Opium Farmer, contrary to section 2 of Ordinance of 1884; second, that he obstructed the excise officer when about to make a search of the ship under section 27; and third, with acting as an excise officer without lawful authority, contrary to section 5. The facts were as follows. On Thursday, 12th inst., about 8 p.m., the Opium Farmer, in consequence of information he had received, instructed the chief excise officer, Mr. Spooner, to go on board the defendant's ship, the Honam, which was then lying alongside the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s wharf. The chief excise officer went on board, and the first person he met was the chief officer. He said \"You have prepared Opium on board this ship.\" Some conversation took place and Mr. Spooner was eventually referred to the Captain, to whom he said, \"You have prepared Opium on board your ship and I want it.\" The Captain most distinctly refused to give the Opium up and also challenged him to search his ship. The chief excise officer was accompanied by five other officers, and as there might have been a breach of the peace he took the precaution to send for a policeman. A constable arrived, but as his powers were not sufficiently large it was thought fit to send for an Inspector. There was some little delay and eventually Sergt. Baker arrived. The Captain still refused to deliver up the Opium, for the reason, he (Mr. Webber) thought he was justified in saying, that he thought it would be better to take it to Canton. The chief excise officer then, in order to convince the Captain of his wrong doing, sent for a copy of the Opium Ordinance, and then Sergt. Baker at considerable length explained to the Captain the provisions of that Ordinance. The Captain went into his long chair, became once more comfortable, and nothing more was said until about a quarter to twelve, when the Captain, after due consideration of his position, sent to the chief excise officer, who had remained on board, and ordered the Opium to be given up. The Opium, consisting of twenty-four tins, was then delivered to the chief excise officer, and was by him handed to the police, and the following morning the chief excise officer caused this summons to be taken out. If the facts he had stated were borne out the Captain was liable, under the sections he had mentioned, to whatever penalty his Worship might think fit to impose, but the Opium Farmer had given him instructions to say he did not wish that Captain Lefavour should be mulcted in any heavy penalty. The Opium Farmer only wanted to be satisfied his officers had a right to search these ships, and that a Captain, no matter to what line his ship belonged, had no right to take custody or control of any Opium, but should at once hand it over to the proper officers. They had therefore no wish to inflict any heavy penalty on Captain Lefavour, although he was perhaps not one of those Captains who had any right to claim leniency at their hands.\n\nJ. J. Spooner, chief excise officer, said—I received instructions from the Opium Farmer to take out this summons. From information I received on Thursday I went on board the Honam about 9 p.m. My information was that there was",
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        "content_text": "514\n\n( 14 )\n\non board I went to the chief officer's cabin. From a conversation I had with him I went to the Captain. I told him I had information there was a quantity of Opium on board and I asked him to hand it over to me. He asked me to tell him what authority I had. I replied that I had authority under the Ordinance as an excise officer. He asked me if I had a search warrant to search his ship. I replied that I did not require a search warrant, and I pointed out that under section 27 of the Ordinance I had authority to search without a warrant. When I went on board I had with me five excise officers to assist me in searching. The captain said I could search if I liked. I said \"I do not wish to search. I ask you to hand it over to me.\" He refused.\n\nI sent for a Police Inspector and the Captain went forward. I told the Captain I would not leave the ship and I stayed by the place where the opium was. Shortly afterwards P.C. Crawford, the wharf constable, arrived. The opium was at that time locked up in a locker. When the key was subsequently produced Logan, the Company's watchman, told me it came from the Captain. When the constable arrived I told him he could not do anything, that I was waiting for an Inspector. About half-an-hour later Sergt. Baker came. I handed him my copy of the Ordinance and asked him if he would explain it to the Captain. He went on deck to the Captain and I still stayed below. About a quarter of an hour later I went up to where Sergt. Baker and the Captain were. I then asked Sergt. Baker to search for the opium. He said he would have to consult General Gordon first. I asked him to search because I considered I wanted protection, and also because he has authority. After Sergt. Baker had left I went down below again, and about half-past eleven Logan came to me, said he had orders to give me the opium, and he opened the locker with a key. I found the opium produced. I handed it over to P.C. Crawford.\n\nI am satisfied it is fully prepared Opium. I was called out of bed and went to the Opium Farmer, who told me an informer had told him there was a quantity of prepared Opium on board the Honam, and he would send a man with me to show me where it was. I never saw the man before. I met Logan on the wharf. He said some Chinese he had seen about the wharf had brought it on board, that he had pointed it out to the Captain, and that the Captain had taken possession of it. I knew from the man who was with me that it was in that particular locker, and if I had searched I would have opened that locker first. I did not, as provided by the Ordinance, section 7, produce my excise officer's badge. My idea is that on the Captain becoming aware there was opium on board either myself or the police should have been sent for to make the seizure.\n\nBy Mr. Francis-I did not mark the tins. One of the tins has burst.\n\nBy Mr. Webber-I am acquainted with Captain Lefavour. He knows I am the chief excise officer. I had not my badge, but I had my warrant as an excise officer.\n\nBy his Worship-No permit was produced.\n\nMr. Webber said that was all the evidence he proposed to call.\n\nMr. Francis said that under ordinary circumstances he did not for a moment suppose that this case would have been defended, and after Mr. Webber's statement at the commencement of the case that the prosecution had no intention of pressing for any severe penalty, probably an expression of his Worship's opinion as to the rights and duties of the parties would have been amply sufficient. But the circumstances of the case were rather peculiar, and there had before been other cases resembling in some of their features this case which gave the matter rather a grave aspect, and it was really with a view of getting an investigation of these matters that the case was being defended now. The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company and Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, who were associated with the Company in the Canton river trade, had the gravest reason to believe that one of the principal smugglers of prepared Opium out of the colony was the Opium Farmer and his licensees.\n\nMr. Webber-I strongly object to this, unless you are going to prove it.\n\nMr. Francis-I am going to prove it so far.\n\nMr. Webber--You have no right to make the statement unless you are going to prove it.\n\nHis Worship-Does it affect the issue?\n\nMr. Webber-It is a mean and contemptible insinuation.\n\nMr. Francis said he would prove that the opium came with a permit, that it came from a licensed shop, that it was put on board by their servants, with a view to being smuggled up to Canton, and that it was lawfully in possession of the Captain.\n\nHis Worship--You propose to prove there was a permit?\n\nMr. Francis-I propose to prove that probably there was a permit.\n\nMr. Webber--In order to support that mean and contemptible statement you ought to connect the Opium Farmer with it.\n\nMr. Francis-It is not a mean and contemptible statement.\n\nMr. Webber--I protest against it.\n\nMr. Francis-When Mr. Webber has quite done-\n\nMr. Webber-Well, I protest against it.\n\nHis Worship-I don't see that it bears on the issue.\n\nMr. Francis said he thought his Worship would see that it did bear on the issue when he had finished. Over and over again these steamers had been exposed to grave risks of forfeiture and heavy fines at Canton owing to the smuggling of prepared Opium. In recent cases the opium had been smuggled on board and had been discovered by the officers on board, and within an hour or so, or a very short time of the discovery, people had come direct from the Opium Farmer with the full knowledge that it had been seized, and claimed to take possession of it; and there was grave reason to suppose this was done by some person connected with the Opium Farmer, and that they were interested, as they necessarily must be, in smuggling as much prepared Opium as possible out of the colony, and that Opium seized in the act of being smuggled was protected by the Opium Farmer or his agents or servants. They came the moment they had received information it had been seized by the steamer's officers and claimed it and it was handed back to them.\n\nHis Worship-But is that material.\n\nMr. Francis submitted it was material, because if the opium came from one of the licensed dealers it came from his hands under a permit, and if he surreptitiously put it on board he by that very act constituted the Captain and the owners his agents for the purpose of carrying it.\n\nHis Worship---Carrying smuggled opium?\n\nMr. Francis said that if cargo was surreptitiously put on board a steamer, if it was discovered it was put on the manifest and the owner could be sued for freight. Under such circumstances it was the duty of the Captain to his owners and to the public to take possession of it, and the only question that could arise here was whether he was justified in handing it over to the first comer who asked for it. It was perfectly possible Captain Lefavour might have made a mistake in not giving it up to Mr. Spooner the moment it was asked for, but with such suspicions in the minds of the Company and its officers he thought his Worship would see\n\n( 15 )",
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        "content_text": "515\n\n( 16 )\n\nthe Captain was not at all to blame in retaining that Opium until he could report the matter to the Company or until an officer of police took possession of it; and his Worship would see that neither the constable nor the sergeant would take the responsibility of taking the opium. The Captain was quite justified in waiting for instructions from his superior or until an Inspector of Police took it, to be adjudicated upon in that court. If it had been handed over to Mr. Spooner on his first demand, would there have been any summons? No. Neither the Government nor anyone else would have heard of it.\n\nMr. Webber—Nothing of the kind.\n\nHis Worship—Your argument would be pertinent if they were pressing for a heavy penalty.\n\nMr. Francis said that if his Worship would study the Ordinance, he would see it absolutely ignored the possibility of anyone having in his possession prepared Opium for any purpose but one, namely, that of smoking it. The learned counsel read the sections of the Ordinance referring to the certificates to be held by the possessors of prepared Opium and said the only certificate provided for was that given by the vendor to the purchaser. Supposing the opium were being exported in due course, there was no certificate to be given to the Captain of the vessel by which it was to be exported. Now supposing the purchaser was a person authorised by the Farmer to export Opium and he shipped it in the ordinary way, the Captain of the ship would, so far as the absence of a certificate was concerned, be in unlawful possession of it.\n\nMr. Webber—He would have an export permit.\n\nMr. Francis said there were no export permits given for prepared Opium. It had been forgotten in the Ordinance to provide for a great many cases in which prepared Opium must be handled by different people. There were other transactions besides the simple one between a vendor and purchaser. What was the position of the Captain of a ship on board which prepared Opium was properly put under a bill of lading? He was lawfully in possession and could not be asked for a certificate under section 16.\n\nHis Worship—He would be a person in possession of prepared Opium without a certificate.\n\nMr. Francis—But could he be punished for it? He would be neither vendor nor purchaser. It was a case entirely omitted from the Ordinance. This was of very little importance in the present case; he was only arguing from analogy that for many purposes not provided for in the Ordinance, people might be lawfully in possession of prepared Opium although they could not have a certificate under section 16. This being a case unprovided for by the Ordinance, his Worship, he submitted, would say that the Captain was lawfully in possession of the opium in the performance of his duty.\n\nHis Worship—But that is the point, whether anyone can be lawfully in possession without a certificate.\n\nMr. Francis said the only certificate mentioned was the one given by the vendor to the purchaser. Captain Lefavour not having purchased the opium, it would be absurd to expect him to be in possession of such a certificate as that, and therefore if it was a thing he could not possibly have, the law would not demand it of him if otherwise the circumstances were such that he was lawfully in possession of it. His Worship would understand that there must be persons who must be in possession of opium every day of their lives, without any possibility of their being in possession of the certificate mentioned in section 16. He would tender the evidence of Mr. Logan, who had been for some time past with six men acting as excise officers for the steamers to prevent any opium being smuggled on board. About half-past seven, Mr. Logan got information from one of his men that he had been approached by the head coolie of a well-known licensed opium shop in Hillier Street, and that offers had been made to pay him and his fellows $2 per trip to wink at or allow opium to be smuggled on board, and that he was told opium was going on board that evening. A little after half-past seven, Mr. Logan and his men, being on the look-out, went forward into the crew's part of the ship. On the forward part of the main deck, there was a small engine house for the donkey engine, and looking through the window, they saw these tins of opium lying on the floor inside. They sent for the Captain, who had it carried upstairs and put in a locker. The next morning, three of the stokers' crew were missing from the ship. His Worship would see what happened. Within an hour or less, the Opium Farmer was in possession of the facts—and the information had not been obtained from Mr. Spooner or any of his officers, for the informant was unknown to Mr. Spooner—and when Mr. Spooner went on board, it was not to search the ship generally, but with special information that there was prepared Opium on board and that Captain Lefavour had seized it and locked it up in a particular locker on deck. Now, how did the Opium Farmer come to be in possession of that information?\n\nHis Worship—Is that relevant?\n\nMr. Francis submitted it was relevant because if the opium came out of an opium shop, it was covered by the Opium Farmer's own licence. The shop was that of one of the sub-licensees.\n\nHis Worship—The point is, was there any certificate or permit covering it on board that ship? There might have been a licensed sale to the smuggler and the smuggler have destroyed the permit.\n\nMr. Francis said that supposing the case to have been as suggested by his Worship, there was a defect in the Ordinance. The certificate was not a transferable or negotiable document. There was no provision that the purchaser was to transfer the certificate every time he transferred the opium. There was no possibility of the Captain of a ship having such a certificate as was asked for in this case.\n\nIf the opium was honestly put on board, the Captain was in lawful possession of it, and if it was smuggled on board, it was his duty to the owners to seize it and retain it for a reasonable time until he could get instructions. If an Inspector of Police had turned up, the stuff would have been handed over to him. He thought Captain Lefavour was fairly and reasonably justified in keeping possession until the office should be open in the morning, and he could get instructions from Mr. Arnold or the Directors. That was the exact position Captain Lefavour took up, and the question for his Worship to decide was, what was his duty under the circumstances? He thought his Worship would see that he was lawfully in possession of that opium for the time being and exercised only a reasonable discretion in taking time to consider his position. He proposed to call Mr. Logan and his two informers so as to trace as far as they could where the opium came from. His Worship asked Mr. Francis if he would restate his argument briefly, so that he could take a note of it, treating it as smuggled opium.\n\nMr. Francis said it was the Captain's duty to his owners and to the Opium Farmer, or rather to the State, to take possession of the opium the moment it came to his knowledge that it was there. In taking possession of the opium, he could not possibly have a certificate under section 16, and at that time of night, and with a view to getting an investigation of the case, which would not have occurred if he had given it up instantly, he would have been justified in retaining it until business hours in the morning. No opium, he submitted, ought to be confiscated without investigation, but how it was intended the investigation should\n\n( 17 )",
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        "content_text": "516\n\n( 18 )\n\nThe most material facts were that the opium was found by the Captain smuggled on board his ship between half-past-seven and eight o'clock and the Opium Farmer had full knowledge of it and sent his officer to claim it within an hour afterwards. He did not know it was taken on board.\n\nHis Worship - Assuming that is so?\n\nMr. Francis - Of course the legal point may be entirely separated from that. It is only a question of greater or less justification.\n\nHis Worship - And they don't press for any penalty. That would have been very pertinent if they had pressed for a penalty.\n\nMr. Francis - If your Worship is of the opinion the Ordinance has been broken on a technical point it is perfectly useless for me to give any evidence at all, and if you decide that point I have nothing further to say.\n\nHis Worship - Without saying my mind is at all settled on that point I would like to hear your argument, but I cannot see how evidence could help me. All you say there remains the legal point. Assuming you prove...\n\nMr. Francis - I cannot offer one single word of argument more than I have.\n\nHis Worship - I will ask you to argue this point - assuming possession was legal until demand made.\n\nMr. Francis - Then I say at once we have a complete legal defence under the Ordinance, which says in section 7 \"Every excise officer shall be supplied with a badge... shall declare his office and produce to the person against whom he is about to act his said badge.\" Mr. Spooner failed to do that. The badge is his sole justification, and without it, whether he is known or not, the person against whom he is about to act is perfectly justified in refusing to recognise him as an excise officer at all. If the strict letter of the Ordinance is to be enforced against us I ask you to enforce it with reference to the constable and sergeant who appeared; they don't come within the Ordinance at all; it says \"every excise officer or Inspector of Police.\" If we are to be convicted on a purely technical ground against the moral justice of the case I submit we are entitled to shelter ourselves under that technical protection. Of course, if your Worship's decision amounts to this, that our duty is on discovering opium on board instantly to set a watch on it and send to the excise officer, that course will be implicitly followed in the future. We want guidance as much as anything else.\n\nMr. Webber said that although he asked for a small penalty, a fine of one cent, yet taking all the circumstances into consideration it was utterly absurd to suppose or to ask the court to believe that the defendant would ever have given that opium up to any officer at all. As to keeping it until business hours in the morning, the ship was going to leave at eight o'clock, before the office would be open, and the defendant would have had no greater facilities than in the evening. The intention was to take the opium to Canton and hand it over to the Imperial Maritime Customs, where he would have got half the value as a reward.\n\nHis Worship - I have no hesitation in saying there is nothing to warrant the assertion.\n\nMr. Webber - They have said the Opium Farmer is a smuggler, which is a mean insinuation.\n\nHis Worship - There is not an atom of evidence against the Opium Farmer.\n\nMr. Webber - But you have assumed it was smuggled.\n\nHis Worship - Simply for the argument.\n\nMr. Webber - said he wanted to show that those who came into court and talked so freely about smuggling had not such clean hands themselves.\n\n( 19 )\n\nMr. Francis said that by an arrangement with the Customs no reward whatever was given to the officers of the steamers for the discovery of smuggled opium. Whatever was awarded was paid into the office and was disbursed by the Steamboat Company and Messrs. Butterfield and Swire for the purpose of keeping up this preventive staff, so that there was no reason whatever to suggest that it was the intention to take the opium to Canton. They had nothing to gain by taking it to Canton.\n\nMr. Webber - As we do not press for a penalty there is no need to pursue this, but if we are to be called smugglers we have a right to call them smugglers too.\n\nHis Worship - You say, Mr. Francis, this is a matter of some importance by way of guidance to the Company?\n\nMr. Francis - Yes.\n\nHis Worship - Well, then, I think I should like to reserve it until to-morrow morning.\n\nMr. Webber - I take it that whatever opinion is given here it won't last; it will be appealed.\n\nMr. Francis - If your Worship's opinion is against us I should not think of appealing.\n\nMr. Webber - That shows the weakness of their case.\n\nMr. Francis - I don't think so. The Company have no interest whatever except to save their steamers from the risk of forfeiture.\n\nBEFORE MR. E. ROBINSON.\n\nTHE \"HONAM\" OPIUM CASE.\n\nHis Worship now gave his decision in the case in which Captain Lefavour of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's steamer Honam, was charged with an offence under the Opium Ordinance. Mr. Webber appeared on behalf of the Opium Farmer for the prosecution, and Mr. Francis, Q.C., for the defence.\n\nHis Worship - With regard to the charge under section 5 of Ordinance 1 of 1884, for assuming to act as an excise officer, there is no proof that the Captain did take the character of an excise officer within the meaning of the section. With reference to the charge under section 27 - read with section 3 of Ordinance 17 of 1880, which gives the same power to an excise officer as to an Inspector of Police - to obstruct an excise officer is an offence, but in this case no obstruction has been proved. Mr. Spooner has given evidence that when he went to exercise the right of search the Captain said that he might search. The Captain could not be called upon to do more than let him search.\n\nWith regard to the charge under section 2, for being in possession of opium without a valid certificate, I am of the opinion that it is absolutely prohibited to be in possession of prepared Opium without a certificate by the Opium Farmer or his licensees. It is an absolute prohibition, and even an innocent party cannot defend himself against that prohibition. That being so I don't know that it is necessary for me to say more in reference to the possible cases mentioned by the learned counsel for the defence in his very able argument than to point out that...",
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        "content_text": "(20)\n\nSection 37 provides a remedy for the public against the arbitrary exercise of the very extensive powers given to the Opium Farmer. If a frivolous charge is brought, the Magistrate can deal with it under that section very severely by fining the Opium Farmer. That seems to be for the protection of the public and to justify to a certain extent the extreme powers given under section 2. It is unnecessary for me to go further, but I should like to allude—not of course as founding my judgment upon it in any way—to the reference made to section 7. It is a very important section, I think, for the Opium Farmer and the excise officers to bear in mind. One reason for the section, I suppose, is that a person may be perfectly well known as an excise officer, but he may have forfeited his badge or warrant, and the only security the public can have against him is that of the production of the badge to show that he is acting up to that very day as an excise officer. The words are \"acting against any person.\" Now in this case Mr. Spooner did not act against any person; the opium was not searched for; according to the evidence, it was given up; therefore section 7 would not apply. With regard to a penalty, no severe penalty is pressed for. There is force in the Opium Farmer's contention that the opium was kept from 7:30 until late at night in the possession of the Captain and that so far he did not allege any intention of surrendering it to the police any more than to the Opium Farmer.\n\nI would like to say with regard to section 7, also, that it seems it is not on the same footing with section 2. It is not an absolute prohibition; it is simply for the protection of the subject. If the subject chooses to waive that protection absolutely, I think in this case the non-production of the badge could be excused by the waiver. The chief excise officer has sworn that he was known as such. There is absolute proof of this, because the Captain said, \"you may search.\" The object of the production of proof of authority is for the protection of the subject. Here the proof of authority was formally dispensed with, but I think excise officers should carefully bear in mind this section 7. I shall say no more than that a purely nominal penalty of one cent is imposed.\n\nMr. Webber—That is all we ask for, simply a conviction.\n\nHis Worship—It is a conviction under section 2.\n\nMr. Webber—The opium, of course, will be forfeited to the Opium Farmer.\n\nHis Worship—The opium will be forfeited, but it is discretionary whether I order it to be handed over to the Opium Farmer or not.\n\nMr. Webber—I think it ought to be handed over under the Ordinance.\n\nMr. Francis—It is quite within your Worship's discretion.\n\nHis Worship—I will withhold any order for two or three days. I may say there is not an atom of evidence to show that the Opium Farmer was connected with this opium. The evidence rather points to one of his licensees, and I think as it is meritorious to have discovered it, I shall leave the case open for two or three days to see if anything by way of reward for meritorious services is tendered. Of course, there is no obligation to make it.\n\nMr. Francis—I may mention that the owners of these steamers intend to petition the Government to amend the Ordinance in that respect and to allow the opium seized in this manner to be either destroyed or handed over to the steamer owners to cover their risks and expenses.\n\nHis Worship—Of course, there cannot be any such thing as confiscation of opium unless the case comes before the Magistrate, but the Captain's duty is to hand it over to the first Inspector of Police or excise officer, both having equal power to take possession of it. If he likes, he can at the same time send a memo to the Police Station stating he has done so, if he wants to protect himself.\n\n(21)\n\n2.—Declaration of James Henry Logan.\n\n517\n\nI, JAMES HENRY LOGAN, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Preventive Officer, do solemnly and sincerely declare:\n\n1. That I am employed by the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, Limited, to prevent the smuggling of Opium and Saltpetre on board any of the said Company's steamers, and I have assistants under me.\n\n2. That on the Twelfth September instant, about 6 o'clock p.m., Pun Kong, one of my said assistants, told me that he expected that some Opium would be put on board the Company's steamer Honam at about 7:30 o'clock that evening. On hearing this, I went on board the Honam at the last-mentioned hour, accompanied by four of my said assistants, to search the steamer. I first searched the forecastle, where I found nothing. I then went to the steam-winch room, which was locked. I looked into the window with a bull's-eye lamp and saw some mat packages lying on the floor, whereupon I went to the Captain and asked him to come down and help me to get the door of the steam-winch opened. He came down with me, and when we arrived at the room, we found that the door had been already opened. I found four mat packages in the room, each containing six tins of Opium, which the Captain, G. B. Lefavour, took charge of and removed to the store-room and had it locked up.\n\nAbout 9:15 o'clock that same evening, Mr. Spooner and some Excise Officers came to the steamer. Mr. Spooner told Mr. Thomas (the Chief Officer) that he had information regarding some Opium being on board and that he knew where the Opium was, at the same time pointing to the store-room. The Chief Officer called the Captain, and Mr. Spooner told him (the Captain) that he was informed that some Opium was on board and that he wanted to search for it. The Captain replied that he could go ahead and search and asked him if he had a warrant with him. Mr. Spooner said that he was an Excise Officer well known to the Captain and that no warrant was necessary. Mr. Spooner then sent for an Inspector of Police. A Sergeant and a European Constable came. The Captain, Sergeant, and Mr. Spooner had some conversation in the saloon, and I heard Mr. Spooner threaten to arrest the Captain, and again Mr. Spooner sent for the Inspector. While he was sending for him, the Captain sent me to Mr. Arnold, the said Company's Secretary, and I told him what had occurred. Mr. Arnold gave me an order that the Opium should not be handed to the Opium Farmer's men but to the Inspector of Police. I went back to the steamer and delivered that message to the Captain. Mr. Spooner and his Excise Officers were still there. I and the Captain waited for some time to see if the Inspector would come, but he did not come. About 11:15 o'clock that same night, the Captain told me to hand the Opium over to Constable Crawford, No. 75, the Constable in charge of the wharf, and I did so.\n\n3. That I am acquainted with Wong Luk, the Chinese Excise Officer, No. 49. He has frequently given me information that Opium was going to be smuggled to Canton and particularly by the steamer Hankow. His information has always been correct. On one occasion, he himself sent a man up to Canton to inform the Customs there that a passenger on board was smuggling Opium. The Opium was seized at Canton, and he received a reward.\n\n4. That Wong Luk has often told me that he has several times been sent by the Head Chinaman of the Opium Farmer with a permit to accompany Opium on board the Canton steamer at night for smuggling into China, and that so soon as the Opium was on board, he has returned with the permit, leaving the Opium on the steamer. His plan is to get the Opium seized either here or at Canton so that he may obtain a portion of the reward.\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act made and passed in the Sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled An Act to...",
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        "content_text": "519\n\n( 24 )\n\n5. Declaration of Lai A Hing.. \n\nI, LAI A HING, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Trader and Commission Agent, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:-\n\n1. That I have a great many times purchased prepared Opium from Cheung Tak Company, the present Opium Farmer.\n\n2. That on the 10th September instant at about 6 o'clock P.M., my principal Leung Cheung gave me a delivery order for 24 tins of prepared Opium packed in four large parcels. I took the order to Tak Lung, the Manager of the Cheang Tak Company, and he gave me an Export Certificate and told me to get Opium at the factory at Praya West. Accordingly at about 6.30 o'clock that evening I got 24 tins of Opium from the clerk at the said factory and shipped them on board a small boat. About 3.30 o'clock on the morning of the 11th September instant I tried several times to take the Opium on board the steamboat Honam in this small boat but failed as the preventive officer was strictly watching until the said Leung Cheung who was then on board the steamer told me to take the Opium back so I took it back to Praya West and carried it ashore to the clerk in two journeys. This was about six o'clock in the morning.\n\n3. That on 12th September instant, the said Leung Cheung requested me to offer the preventive officer some bribe money so I went on board the Powan and talked with the officer Fung A-Shing. I requested him not to watch me so strictly and promised to pay him two dollars a voyage. He refused and I went away.\n\n4. That on the 12th September instant about 6 o'clock P.M. I again got a delivery order from the said Leung Cheung to get 24 tins of Opium. Accordingly I obtained them from the clerk at the factory at Praya West and shipped them in a boat for the steamer. As we approached I went ashore and went to the steamer. There I saw the said Fung A Shing and told him that the things had come. He told me not to send it there. I learned that the Opium was placed on board the steamer and then I went ashore. That same evening about 7.30 o'clock I heard that the Opium had been seized whereupon I reported the fact to the said Leung Cheung who went to the Opium Farmer.\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of An Act made and passed in the Sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth entitled \"An Act to repeal an Act of the (then) present Session of Parliament entitled An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits and to make other provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths,”\n\nDeclared at No. 35, Queen's Road Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong this 23rd day of September 1889.\n\nBefore me,\n\nLS\n\nVictos H. Dracos, Notary Public,\n\nInterpreted to the said LAI A HING in the Chinese language by TSANG KAM CHUN, Interpreter to Wotton & Deacon, Solicitors, HONGKONG.\n\n(LAI A HING,)\n\n黎阿興\n\n( 25 )\n\n6.-Report of Case tried before the Honourable Mr. Wodehouse.\n\nPOLICE COURT.\n\n6th September.\n\nTHE LARGE SEIZURE OF OPIUM.\n\nA large seizure of opium was made on Thursday evening near Yaumati. Inspector Bremner having obtained information that an attempt was to be made to smuggle a quantity of raw opium, went off in a boat accompanied by a small body of police, about 8 p.m., and overtook two boats suspected of having opium on board. On one boat were found 414 balls of Malwa and 199 balls of Patna, and on the other 207 balls of Malwa and 160 balls of Patna. There were three persons in charge of each boat and these were arrested and brought before Mr. Wodehouse yesterday morning. The men in charge of each boat were fined $500 or six months' imprisonment, while the other occupants of the boat were each fined $50. Later in the day Mr. Webber applied for a rehearing of the case on the ground that he had a perfect defence for all the prisoners. The application was granted, and the case will be reheard on the 10th inst. [Daily Press, 7th September, 1889.]\n\nPOLICE COURT.\n\n10th September.\n\nIn the case in which six men were charged with removing 199 balls of Patna opium and 414 balls of Malwa without permission from the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Mr. Webber stated that Mr. Francis had been retained for the defence, and asked for a further remand. Remanded until Friday,\n\nPOLICE COURT.\n\n13th September.\n\nTHE OPIUM CASE.\n\nThe case in which six men are charged with the illegal possession of several hundred balls of opium was again before the Court. Mr. Francis, Q.C., instructed by Mr. Webber, appeared for the defence, and explained that he was instructed on behalf of the owner of the opium. Mr. Dennys watched the case on behalf of the Opium Farmer.\n\nThe case arose out of a seizure made by Inspector Bremner on two sampans, and the charge was laid under the section of the Ordinance which prohibits the possession of opium in quantities of less than one chest. In this case the chests had been broken and the balls packed in bags.\n\nMr. Francis, addressing the Court for the defence, said the opium in question was the property of the Yune Tak firm, of which Lam Chune Sing was one of the partners. Lam Chune Sing was a licensee for the sale of prepared Opium under Ordinance 1 of 1884 and was, as he understood, the only person who had been directly licensed by the Opium Farmer for the purpose of selling prepared Opium.",
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        "content_text": "520\n\n( 26 )\n\nHe issued sub-licenses, and had got from the Opium Farmer practically a monopoly of the sale of prepared Opium in the colony. The Opium Farmer was not at liberty to grant any licenses for preparing opium, having been deprived of that power, which former Farmers had. He had two establishments for preparing opium, one of which was over at Mongkok, and he was in the habit of receiving there and at his place here opium the property of his licensee, which he prepared for the licensee, charging him $100 a chest in all, $65 being for the fee and the remainder for expenses. At Mongkok Punti workmen were employed, and one method of preparation, and at the establishment on this side Amoy workmen and another method. The licensee if he wanted the opium for one purpose sent it over to Mongkok to be prepared and if for another purpose it was prepared on this side. On the 4th and 5th September he purchased twelve chests of opium and for the removal of these twelve chests to Mongkok the usual permits were obtained in the name of the Opium Farmer, who assumed the responsibility of the opium being accounted for. The learned counsel detailed the process by which permits are obtained and traced the connection by which he intended to show that the permits which would be put in applied to the particular opium seized. The opium was taken down to the cargo boat in chests, put on board before six o'clock and about that time the boat left. On that evening there was a very strong tide running with little or no breeze. The junk could make little or no progress and the opium was transferred to small boats to be taken over to Mongkok. At that place there was a long stretch of shallow water and mud without any proper landing stage, and it had always been the custom to unpack the opium either in the godowns or in the junk, for convenience in carrying it ashore, as they could not carry it in chests, and that was done in this case.\n\nHe would call people from the various godowns from which the opium was obtained to prove the marks and numbers of the chests, and the owner of the cargo boat, who would explain how the chests were broken and the opium put into bags on board the junk and passed on to two boats as the more convenient way under the circumstances of the tide and wind of getting it over to Mongkok. He would also call the Opium Farmer, who would state that what was done was with his consent, these people being practically his partners. The covers of the chests, with their marks and numbers, would also be produced. If he succeeded in proving what he had stated, he thought his Worship would have no difficulty in finding the opium was in possession of the prisoners simply as that of their masters, that their masters were properly in possession of that opium, amounting in all to twelve chests, and that it was properly and lawfully on its way to Mongkok.\n\nInspector Bremner was recalled for cross-examination. He stated the positions of the boats at the time of the seizure, and said that even under the circumstances of the tide on the night in question he would not expect to find boats taking that direction to reach Mongkok.\n\nIn reply to question by his Worship the witness said the man in charge of one of the boats told him they were going to Mongkok, but afterwards changed his mind and said he did not know where they were going. The man also said he was unfortunate to get caught, that the seizure was a good chance for witness, but that he was only to have had $10 for his share. There was a pass over the hills from Mongkok.\n\nLain Chune Sing, of the Yune Tak firm, No. 121, Praya Central, was then called, and gave particulars of the opium in question in accordance with the statement of counsel. He said the opium was sent to Mongkok because the expenses were smaller there and the water was better.\n\nL. G. D'Almada, clerk in the Imports and Exports Office, identified the permits and the applications on which they were issued.\n\n(97)\n\nKoh Ching Seng, the Opium Farmer, also gave evidence as to the Lam Chune Sing being his licensee, and of the custom of sending opium over to witness's factory at Mongkok. He had three factories, one at West Point, one at East Point and one at Mongkok. The reason he had a factory at Mongkok was that the water was better and there was a constant supply. The supply of Pokfulam water was not constant and was often muddy. He explained that he would have to account for the twelve chests of opium in question, as he was only allowed by his contract to boil 3,600 chests a year, and if he was debited with more than that quantity in the books of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports he would have to pay an additional sum for each chest.\n\nAt this stage the case was adjourned until Tuesday at 2.30\n\nPOLICE COURT.\n\n17th September.\n\np.m.\n\nLARGE CONFISCATION OF OPIUM AND HEAVY PENALTIES,\n\nThe case in which six men were charged with being in possession of 411 lbs. of Malwa opium and 1,382 lbs. of Patna opium in quantities of less than one chest were again before the court on remand. Mr. Francis, Q.C., instructed by Mr. Webber, appeared under instructions from the owner of the opium for the defence.\n\nThe case for the prosecution, as appeared at the former hearings, was that the opium was found packed in bags on board two sampans in the harbour at night. The defence was that the opium was being lawfully conveyed to the Opium Farmer's boiling establishment at Mongkok and that the chests had been broken and the contents packed in bags simply for convenience of landing.\n\nA number of witnesses were now called by the defence to trace the opium from the godowns where it had been stored to the sampans, and to identify it as the contents of the chests mentioned in the removal permits. The cargo boatman gave evidence to the effect that he had often previously taken opium on board his boat for Mong-kok and had it packed in bags on the way over.\n\nMr. Francis then addressed the Court.\n\nHe submitted that the opium seized was in the possession of the first, second, and fourth prisoners, the others being simply boat people. The possession by the first, second, and fourth was really possession by the Yuen Tak Hong, to which the opium belonged. The question therefore arose whether the Yuen Tak Hong was lawfully or unlawfully in possession of it, and he submitted the possession was lawful, the master of the hong having received permits in the name of the Opium Farmer from the Imports and Exports Office authorising him to transfer it from the godowns of the importers to the Opium Farmer's place at Mongkok. The master of the Yuen Tak hong was really the licensed retail seller of prepared Opium, under the Opium Farmer, and he was also a large exporter of prepared opium. There seemed to be no provision in the Opium Ordinance for the exportation of prepared Opium at all and no one was supposed to be in the possession of prepared Opium without a document in a particular form from the person from whom he bought it and that it was intended solely for local consumption.\n\nAs a matter of fact it was known the Opium Farmer had for many years past largely exported to California and other countries his own prepared Opium. The owner of the Opium in this case was in the habit of",
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        "content_text": "(30)\n\nTherefore I am clearly of opinion that in this case there has been a breach of the Opium Ordinance. With regard to the penalty, it has been pointed out that the prisoners are really only the servants of the owner of the opium and that therefore if there was a breach of the law committed by anybody it has been not so much by them as by the owner. I admit the purchaser and the man who ordered the opium to be conveyed in this way is certainly more to blame than the prisoners, who undertook to carry out his orders, but I cannot regard them as in any way under coercion and I consider that being in possession of the opium in the way they were they were wilful transgressors of the law. One of them said to Mr. Bremner that he was getting only a small sum for the job, $10, and that Mr. Bremner was making a much better thing of it. I cannot therefore hold them as other than free agents. It is true they were acting under orders, but orders which they were in no way bound to comply with. It was quite possible for them to refuse to carry them out. In the same way I consider the sampan people to be to blame, though in a much minor degree to the people found in possession of the opium. I therefore find them all guilty of being in possession of opium in quantities less than one chest without proper authority. On the evidence it seems that this practice has been going on for a considerable time and I think it necessary to mark my sense of the offence by giving an exemplary punishment. I therefore fine the first, second, and fourth $500 each or three months' imprisonment, and the third, fifth, and sixth $50 each, or one month; the opium to be confiscated.\n\nMr. Francis gave formal notice of the appeal.\n\nThe fines were paid out of the money which had been deposited as bail.\n\nC\n\nFURTHER CORRESPONDENCE\n\nOF THE\n\nWITH THE\n\nHONGKONG CANTON & MACAO STEAM-BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED, AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED,\n\nHONGKONG GOVERNMENT,\n\nAND OTHER PAPERS\n\nUPON THE SUBJECT OF\n\nSMUGGLING BY THE RIVER STEAMERS TO CANTON.\n\nExtract from the Hongkong “Daily Press” of 23rd November, 1889, of the proceedings at the Hongkong Supreme Court on 22nd instant,\n\nin the Appeal suit of\n\nTang Man and OTHERS, APPELLANTS, #.\n\nDONALD BREMNER, RESPONDENT.\n\nThis case, which was heard on the 13th inst., was an appeal against the decision of Honourable H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate, in which he convicted the appellants of being in possession of raw opium in quantities less than one chest. The opium was seized in a boat by the respondent, a Police Inspector.\n\nMr. POLLOCK, instructed by Mr. WEBBER, appeared in the absence of Mr. FRANCIS, Q.C., for the appellants, and the Acting Attorney-General (Honourable A. J. LEACH) instructed by the Acting Crown Solicitor (Mr. A. P. STOKES), for the respondent.\n\nThe Acting Chief Justice read the following judgment of the full Court :—\n\nThe only real question at issue on this appeal is whether a man in possession of the contents of several chests of raw opium packed in bags can be convicted of being in possession of opium \"in quantities less than one chest,\" under Section 6 of Ordinance XXII of 1887. \"Chest of Opium\" is defined by the Ordinance to mean \"the package with the opium therein such as is usually imported by merchants in the Colony.\" It is argued on the respondent's behalf that from this definition and from the object of the Ordinance as stated in the preamble, which recites that \"it is expedient to regulate and control the movement of raw opium within the Colony,\" it can be gathered that the intention of the 6th section must have been to prohibit the possession of raw opium otherwise than in the chest, i.e., in the full chest as imported, and that this inference is strengthened by the 11th section, which in dealing with the subject of the removal and transhipment of raw opium refers only to the removal or transhipment of a chest or chests of opium. It may be admitted that if the 6th section can be construed to mean that the possession of raw opium otherwise than in the chest is illegal the control of the Executive would be far more complete than if, as the appellant contends, the section merely forbids the possession of opium in quantities less than the contents of a chest,\n\n522",
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        "content_text": "Swavesey Station 2304364mbridgeshire\n\nRECP\n\nREGE I NOV the Rebber 1897..\n\nMy Lord\n\n37\n\nHaving been informed by the Inspectors that several members of the Hong Kong Police Force have been dismissed for breach of Police discipline, including the two Selective Inspectors, Messrs Stanton and Buincey, and as it will be difficult to replace these valuable officers, I most respectfully beg to offer myself as a Candidate for the position of Chief Selective Inspector, if your Lordship will put me on an equal footing to that of the Chief Inspector now in Hong Kong as regards Rank, pay, Emoluments, and quarters, and agree to serve the Govt of Hong Kong, for 5 years. I beg to say that I have served nearly 9 years in the London Police and 18 years in the Hong Kong Police, many of which 10 years I served in the detective dept first as sergeant and",
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        "content_text": "CF 489ore\n\nReply that we\n\nare not ser in a position To give them\n\na\n\ndefiinte anoma\n\non the Sagger\n\nis shie\n\nwhich is\n\nrecesing\n\n26.2370/05.\n\nAt once Are\n\n24.11.15\n\nGEORGE FRASER SON & CO.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\n\"FRASER\" MANCHESTER\n\nTEL NOS 2967.\n\n3373.\n\n3. CENTRAL.\n\nPO Box N° 73\n\n101. Portland Street.\n\n¡REC\n\n53418\n\n324\n\nManchester, 17th Nov. 1915\n\nThe Under Secretary y State for the Colonies,\n\nDowning Street.\n\n52239/1915. We have been informed by Bradford friends, that a\n\ntelegram has been received from Bertram Webber, stating the decision of the British authorities in re Hong Kong, dated 31st Oct #91 making them to report to us that on request has been definitely declined.\n\nWe can fully appreciate the difficulty of giving consent, as the request would have involved the authorities in granting the power to a duly established merchant (Messrs. Webber) to make use of chops which are wholly or partly\n\nthe property of what has\n\noffended\n\nGentlemen\n\nfrom a that from so far in the transaction branch\n\nwas concerned being put onto the hands Legatabas\n\nWe presume that the British Authorities have no desire to hinder debt from establishing himself as a Merchant in Hongkong, and it is\n\nhis knowledge of our operatives\n\nonly because\n\nin the particular cloths & have dealt in, gained\n\nwhite",
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        "content_text": "a omm affracking \n\nto a total of $164,011.70, half the total expense ($327,781.92) of the \n\nDept. for the year.\n\nPage 7. General Remarks. The large \n\nBeriberi percentage (12%) of Beri-\n\nberi among \n\ncases admitted to the Tung Wah Hospital is striking (see also page 28), i.e. 846 \n\npatients with 44.7% mortality. I desire \n\nto draw \n\nyour \n\nattention to the value in \n\nthe treatment of the disease of \n\nan extract \n\nmade from \n\nrice meal (presumably containing \n\nthe vitamin lacking \n\nin over-\n\npolished rice) \n\nwhich has been widely \n\nused with success in \n\nthe Philippines, and elsewhere. The \n\nuse of \"marmite\" \n\nis also useful for preventing beriberi, \n\nand, in treating the disease.\n\nIt may be noted that investi-\n\ngations in Hong Kong covering the previous nine years show that 15% of plague infections occurred in the Black Rat (Rattus rattus) against 85% in the Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus). This is not in accordance with the observations made in Kenya (Carswell & Webber Report, 1935) where it is concluded that \"plague in Kenya (apart from Mombasa, where Rattus norvegicus probably plays a part) is only associated with the black rat \n\n(Rattus rattus kijabius)\". No information is given as to the \n\nclinical varieties of the disease which existed among the \n\nDRAFT.\n\nC. Davis.\n\nSir G. Grinkl\n\n1181 cases were certified, I request that \n\nin future, the various kinds of plague \n\nbe differentiated.\n\nPage 8.\n\nAnkylostomiasis.\n\n116\n\nThe peculiar difficulties in the way of \n\ndealing with soil pollution from the sanitary standpoint in \n\nSouth China are appreciated. The use of Carbon tetrachloride \n\neither alone or in combination with oil of chenopodium, \n\nshould however prove useful, if systematically applied and \n\nrepeated in certain areas at regular intervals, in producing \n\nimprovement in the population and possibly in diminishing \n\ninfection of the soil.\n\nIt is observed that Page 1\n\nOm -- Transmission. The Principal Civil Medical Officer \n\ncombats the theory that leprosy is a contagious disease; but Dr. H. Read \n\ndoes not advance any fresh argument in support of his belief \n\nthat the disease arises from the consumption of imperfectly \n\ncured or salt fish.\n\nBy H. Read\n\nJ. Master\n\nOrmsby-\n\nPage 13.\n\nThe suggestion that the unusual prevalence of \n\nmalaria was in part due to the fact that \"there were times \n\nwhen the rainfall was insufficient to scour out the eggs and \n\nlarvae of mosquitoes from the pools and other collections of \n\nwater\" is perhaps correct. The difficulties of dealing with \n\nsuch breeding places in rice-growing areas are very consider-\n\nable, as is recognised on page 26 in noting the prevalence of \n\nmalaria among the police (see also page 18, and the Report of \n\nthe Sanitary Department 1933, page 8.)\n\nPage 19.\n\nTable II (pages 21 and 22) shows the \n\nadmittance of twelve cases of insanity due to alcohol, but no \n\nother drug such as opium, or cocaine, etc. appears to have \n\nbeen an exciting cause.\n\nPage 55.",
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        "content_text": "## Mr. Dickitt\n\nThe following are the references.\n\n368 \n| Author | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| Zichhorn & Lyon | Journ. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 4.2.38 |\n| Rev. in Prop. Vet. Bull. | 31.8.22 p.82 |\n| Kondo | Trop. Vet. 26. Bodl. 30.11.22. p.134 |\n| Vallée | Rinjord. Rev. Gen. Med. Vet. 15.4.23. p.165 |\n|  | Reviendin T. V.B. 30.8.23 p.107 |\n| Bastoni | Berlin, Tier. Woch 28.2.24 p.106 |\n| Szymanowski et al. | C.R. Soc. Biol. 21.3.24 p.697 |\n| Editorial | N.Y.M.J. 14.6.24. p.1059 |\n| Hata | Journal Immunology 5.24 p.89 |\n|  | Reviendin J. A.M.A. 19.7.24 p.221 |\n| Bigelow & Webber | Boston Med. & Surg. Journal 25.9.24 p.7 |\n| Remlinger | Arch Inst. Pasteur Tunis 10.24. p.310 |\n| Britshial | B.J. 1.12.24 p.141 |\n\n582 \nDelayed receipt.\nG.L.M.C.",
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        "content_text": "ון\n\n30\n\nWarders\n\n(Continued)\n\n20\n\nHONG KONG,-Continued.\n\nPRISONS, Continued.\n\n£160-£10-£240 & | W. R. Dedear, Apr. 15, '21 after 10 years to B. Plumb, May 12, '21. £280 by £10. T. J. Falia, Aug. 24, '21.\n\nA. Jillott, Mar. 1, '22.\n\nA. C. English, April 20, '22.\n\nP. Ryan, April 20, '22.\n\nH. Selby, Oct. 26, '22.\n\nH. G. Fuller, Nov. 1, '22. G. B. Foster, Nov. 9, '22. T. O'Donovan, Aug. 2, '23.\n\nE. Tucker, Sept. 22, '23, A. D. Spoors, Oct. 4, '23. W. Ward, Oct. 31, '23. R. Fowler, Oct. 31, '23. P. Gillespie, Jan. 16, '24.\n\nW. E. Webber, Feb. 8, '24.\n\nT. Dodders, Feb. 16, '24.\n\nC. V. Hagan, Apr. 5, '24. G. Hopkins, May 26, '24. W. H. Floyde, Sept. 4, '24. T. N. Davis, Dec. 5, '24. R.G.Robertson, Jan. 1, '25, W. Hodge, Feb. 20, '25. E. F. Cornwall, Mar. 28, '25, T. E. Gooding, April 1, '25. F. C. Barlow, April 11, '25. A. B. A. Mason, April 18, '25.\n\nJ. W. Grant, May 23, '25, S. Randle, May 29, '25.\n\nW. H. Noonan, June 5, '25.\n\nE. H. Dyer, July 6, '25.\n\nJ. S. Joyce, Oct. 1, '25.\n\nA. E. Lacey, Oct. 29, '25.\n\nH. W. Bonner, Oct. 31, '25. C. F. Andrews, Oct. 31, '25. C. J. Kingdon, April 1, '26.\n\nW. Collins, April 12, '26. M. Rooney, June 7, '26. M. T. White, Sept. 2, '26.\n\nWarders\n\n(Continued)\n\n21\n\nHONG KONG, – Continued.\n\nPRISONS, Continued.\n\n£160-£10-£240 & | F. C. Brimblecombe, Oct. 25, '26.\n\nafter 10 years to £280 by £10.\n\nM. Friend, Jan. 14, '27. J. Sutherland, Feb. 10, '27. F. Y. Waite, June 11, '27. S. Murphy, July 18, '27. S. Hodge, Aug. 4, '27 G. Cottrell, Oct. 1, '27. T. M. Pile, Nov. 23, '27. 1 vacant.\n\nMEDICAL DEPARTMENT,\n\nPrincipal Civil Medical Officer.\n\n£1,000-£50-£1,200, J. M.B.E.,\n\nMedical Officers\n\n£600-£25-£1,000 | W. B. A. Moore, L.M., (Rot. Dub.), L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. (Ireland). D.T.M. & H. Mar. 1, '05.\n\nJ. T. Smalley, M.R.C.S., (Eng.), L.R.C.P., (Lond.), May 2, '13.\n\nD. J. Valentine, M.C., M.B., B.S., (Lond.), D.T.M. & H. (Eng.), Nov. 14, '19.\n\nJ. R. Craig, B.A., B.A.O., M.B., B.Ch., Trin. Coll., Dub., L.M. Rot., Dub., Nov. 21, '24.\n\nI. Newton, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Jan. 23, '25.\n\nA. Cannon, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.S., T.M. & H., M.A., P.H.D., Mar. 3, '27.\n\nJ. E. Dovey, M.B., Ch.B. Edin, Mar. 21, '27.\n\nE. W. Kirk, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S., Edin, M.D., June 6, '27.\n\nT. W. Ware, M.B., Ch.B. Bristol, Aug. 25, '27.\n\nRadiologist\n\n£600-£25-£1,000 Vacant.\n\nM\n\n31",
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        "content_text": "## 1.C.A.\ndated 19.11.28\n\nRequests instructions as to disposal of pension.\n\nI presume that Sec. 336 of the Lunacy Act would be binding on me whatever the issue. Order of the Canadian Courts may ? reply accordingly.\n\nKutlay 22/x1/26.\n\nIf Mr. Wable is appointed admin of the lunatic's estate, the C.A. may safely pay the pension to him on receiving a certificate from the hospital that she is alive & that all hospital authorities & dues have been paid.\n\nAs advised to be Shehandh N.E. 26/x.\n\n## 2. To C.A.\n(ausd.\n\n4 - DEC 1928",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT.\n**THE CROWN AGENTS**\n6/14fs\n52956/28. H.K. 2.3\n\nDowning Street, 4 December, 1928.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th of November, relative to the pension payable to Mrs. J. Webb, formerly Matron of the Female Medical Department, Government Civil Hospital, Hong Kong, and to inform you that, if Mr. Webb is appointed to be Administrator of Mrs. Webb's estate, the arrears of her pension may be paid to him on receiving a certificate that Mrs. Webb is dead and that all hospital fees due...\n\nMr. White \nMr. Bottomley. \n1/12 \nSir E. Harding. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nLord Lovat. \nMr. Amery. \n\n**FOR THE COLONIES.** (1)",
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        "content_text": "I am, etc.,  \n(Signed) WALTER D. ELLIS",
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        "content_text": "# CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES\n\n**ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES.**\n\nTHE FOLLOWING REFERENCE AND THE DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.\n\nP/Pens.Q1  \n14  \nTELEGRAMS: CROWN, LONDON.  \nTELEPHONE: 7730 VICTORIA.  \n4. MILLBANK,  \nWESTMINSTER,  \nLONDON, S.W.1.\n\nRECEIVED 9th November, 1926.  \n21 NOV 1928  \nL OFFICE  \n24.10.28.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to attach for the consideration of the Secretary of State, a copy of a letter which we have received from the Deputy Minister of Finance, British Columbia, regarding Mrs. Jane Webb, who is paid on our behalf by that Government, pension and temporary increase at the rate of £111.6 per annum in respect of her late appointment as Matron of the Female Medical Department, Government Civil Hospital, Hong Kong, and to enquire whether (1) we should obey, when it is obtained, the Order of the Canadian Court and authorise payment of the pension to Mr. Webb as Administrator. In this case I have to enquire whether we should require the paying agent first to obtain a certificate, for transmission to us, that all hospital fees have been paid or (2) under section 335 of the Lunacy Act 1890, we should arrange for payment of the fees direct to the Hospital on receipt of the usual certificate and the surplus, if any, to the next of kin.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**Wat wichhar**  \nFOR CROWN AGENTS.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,  \nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nPage 7  \n21.\n\n## FROM THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF FINANCE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TO CROWN AGENTS.\n\nNo.85.008  \nOffice of the Deputy Minister,  \nVictoria, B.C.  \n24th October 1928.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nReferring to your letter of March 5th, 1921, and subsequent correspondence relating to the payment of a monthly pension to Mrs. Jane Webb.\n\nPlease be advised that this pensioner has been admitted as an inmate in a Mental Hospital, and that Mr. Webb is making an application to the Courts to act as Administrator of her Estate, Messrs. Maitland and Maitland, Barristers and Solicitors of Vancouver, B.C., acting on his behalf.\n\nKindly instruct this Office as to what your wishes in regard to the future payments of this pension are.\n\nYours truly,\n(Sgd) E.D. JOHNSON.  \nDeputy Minister of Finance.\n\nPage 6  \nP/Pens.Q1.",
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        "content_text": "## SCHEDULE A\n\n**OFFICERS APPOINTED PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF SALARIES COMMISSION REPORT.**\n\n446\n\n| Signature | Name | Position |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 4.8.0rull | E. G. Shanley |  |\n| A William | 1.7. Sephor | Might vedayfor JOST |\n|  |  | ans Sup' Polis. Gov. Civil. Hook Gov. Civil |\n|  | W. Kambert | Samitang Inquctor, Panity Department |\n| 4 Swan | And Gus | Mess. Gues Hann |\n|  | William Turell | Liker Gya Tw may. mboxe |\n|  | G. Sheriff | 97eely Sunitar, Jack. P.W.D. Eng meas |\n|  |  | FID. Met. San. Inspector. Police kep! |\n|  | CD Bishop | Engineer. P. WD. |\n|  | Mr Webber | T. Seddon. Fake. Prison Heir Sanitary left. Samitay Deks. |",
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        "content_text": "C.B.C. \"Racial\" Solubles The Best and Cheapest Chemical Contraceptive.\n\nIN ALL WAYS THE BEST.\n\nThe three principal advantages are:—\n\n(1) Contains only a wholesome bland disinfectant and low-melting-point cocoa-butter.\n\n(2) Contains no quinine (which is upsetting to some people).\n\n(3) Extremely cheap, namely 1/- a box containing twelve, of a type which corresponds with those for which 2/6 or 3/6 is charged by all the ordinary retail tradesmen.\n\nSome form of chemical contraceptive is very widely recommended by the medical profession and found to be necessary in the majority of cases by the nurses and doctors who advise at the Clinic.\n\nFor poor people the price of 2/6 or 3/6 a box renders them prohibitive, and many of the so-called \"failures\" of methods are to be traced to the fact that poor women simply cannot afford to use the chemical contraceptive which is generally advised in conjunction with some other method.\n\nWhen the trade refused to supply the C.B.C. suppositories in boxes of one dozen at 1/-, the Committee of the C.B.C. decided to render them available for the public at a price which puts them within reach of the poor, as it is part of the charitable work of the Clinic that the best contraceptives shall be available at a suitable price.\n\nOrders by post should contain 1/1½ (to include postage), and will be sent by return if addressed to the Nurse-in-Charge, C.B.C. Clinic, 108, Whitfield Street, London, W. 1.\n\nThe Birth Control News MONTHLY. OCTOBER, 1937. VOL. XVI, No. 3.\n\nC.B.C. PREMISES HAVE BEEN SECURED FOR THE PROPOSED South Wales Clinic FOR GYNÆCOLOGICAL, MARRIAGE PROBLEMS AND CONSTRUCTIVE BIRTH CONTROL HELP TO THE POOR\n\nTrustees for the South Wales Clinic— RICHARD ACLAND, Esq., M.P., and DR. MARIE STOPES.\n\nThe following have kindly consented to act as Medical Officers of the Cardiff Clinic:- SPECIAL CONSULTANT: DR. GRACE JONES, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. MEDICAL OFFICERS: DR. GWENDOLINE MADEL (of Swansea). DR. LILIAN EVANS (of Cardiff), LOCAL TREASURER: MRS. F. NORTH.\n\nLocal Patrons and First Donations for South Wales --- THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR, M.P. £50 0 0 Mrs. BELL £5 0 0 Mrs. PRYNS HOPKINS £3 3 0 R. H. MARTIN, ESQ. £3 3 0 Mrs. PAIN £2 2 0 Sir WILLIAM H. SEAGER, Kt., D.L., J.P. £1 0 0 Sir WILLIAM J. THOMAS, Bt., J.P. £1 0 0 Sir ROBERT J. WEBBER, Kt. J.P. £1 0 0\n\nPlease subscribe to this urgently needed Branch herewith enclose £ To Local Treasurer: MRS. F. NORTH, ASHTEAD, CHARGOT ROAD, CARDIFF, as a Special Gift or to DR. MARIE STOPES, C.B.C. HEADQUARTERS, 106 & 108 WHITFIELD STREET, LONDON, W.1.\n\nPage 10\nPage 11\n12\n26\n\nBIRTH CONTROL NEWS\n\nNeglect of World's Open Spaces.\n\nIn the Geography Section of the British Association meetings this summer, Professor C. B. Fawcett (London) delivered the Presidential Address on \"The Changing Distribution of Population.\" At the beginning of the twentieth century Levasseur made a study of distribution of the world's population, calculating the proportions living north of the northern tropic, south of the southern tropic, and in the tropics, and ignoring the polar lands.\n\nThe outstanding facts were that 74 per cent. of the world's human inhabitants (now 75 per cent.) lived north of the tropic of Cancer, on 50 per cent. of the world's land area, a mean density of sixty persons per square mile; while only 14 per cent. of the world's population in 1907 lived on the 9·3 per cent. of the world's land area south of the tropic of Capricorn, at a mean density of thirteen persons per square mile. This proportion in the southern hemisphere had, however, doubled in the last thirty years, and now amounts to 2·8 per cent. of the total.\n\nOf particular interest was the belt of deserts extending from the Sahara to north-east Siberia. It was this great \"divide\" of empty lands, interrupted only by a few oases and occupied by widely scattered and nomadic peoples, which held apart the civilizations of the East and the West during all the ages of human history before da Gama's voyage to India in 1497.\n\nThe net effect of the great migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had been to add a fourth to the major populous regions and then to increase the absolute and relative numbers of the peoples within those regions. They had not tended to spread population more evenly over the earth or to fill up the great open spaces, but only to accentuate the crowding of mankind into the already populous lands.\n\nProfessor Fawcett dealt very fully with the marked and growing concentration of populations in the urban areas and great cities of the world. This drift to the towns, he said, was universal in the countries affected by modern Western civilization. Between 1921 and 1931 the proportional increase in the London area was more than double the rate of increase for Great Britain. Some other great \"conurbations\" grew even more rapidly, though none had a greater absolute increase. The number of these \"million-cities\" and of their inhabitants was increasing, so that in two or three generations, if the tendency was not checked, a majority of mankind might be found living in from 200 to 300 such conurbations.\n\nNature Takes a Hand.\n\nSix thousand more babies were born in England and Wales in the second quarter of this year. Is one to assume that Nature herself has taken alarm at the statisticians' recent prophecies of a Britain of only five million inhabitants in a hundred years' time, and is embarking on a campaign of counter-offensive?\n\n(Continued from p. 27.)\n\nany time to appear as an address for receiving communications on behalf of a society advocating the practice of birth control. Where, however, the Governor of another Colony included a reference to the subject in a speech delivered after the locally elected Legislature had made provision in its estimates for birth control clinics the Colonial Office did not consider that it would be justified in interfering.\n\n44\n46\nOctober, 1937",
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        "document_key": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945",
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        "title": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945",
        "content_text": "16\n\n139\n\nLAU TAK KWONG, ALEXANDER CHRISTY SHINTON, LEUNG HUNG, FREDERICK IVAN GEORGE HALL, BRAILEY, DOUGLAS WILLIAM WATERTON, HUBERT STANLEY REES, VALTER RICHARDSON SCOTT, JOHN ALEXANDER FRASER.\n\nSentence of 15 years' imprisonment was passed on the accused HO YAU, CHAN WAI CHI, LUIS CARLOS ROSARIO SOUZA, FRANK ROBERT, WILLIAM ANDERSON, JAMES LESLIE ANDERSON.\n\n19th October, 1943\n\nHongkong Occupied Territory Governor-General's Dep., Court Martial.\n\nLieut.-Col. FUJIMOTO.\n\nChief Judge:\n\nJudge: Judge:\n\nLegal 1st Lieut. YAMAGUCHI, Kyoichi. Army 1st Lieut. TIMURO, Tetsu.\n\n(T.N. All sentenced to death (N.B. LEE LAM's name is omitted from the list) executed 29 Oct. 1943. Those sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment had sentence commuted to 10 years by Proclamation 15, 1944).\n\nThe case against Major CECIL BOON, R.A.S.C., may be summarised briefly as follows: It is alleged that:\n\n1.\n\nOn or about Dec. 16, 1942, at SHAMSHUIPO P.W. Camp he made extreme pro-Jap remarks, supplied the enemy with propaganda material, and praised without justification their treatment of Ps/W.\n\n(Witnesses: Major ASHTON ROSS, I.M.S., Major J.D.A. GRAY, R.A.S.C., Capt. A.M. RODRIQUES, H.K.V.D.C., Capt. G.C.E. GREW, R.A.S.C., Capt. R.N. THURSEY, H.K.V.D.C., Capt. C.G. WEBBER. Evidence forthcoming from BOON's document entitled \"Mental Reactions\" and his diary.\n\n2.\n\nOn 1st Oct. 1944 he condemned an air attack made by American Air Force on the camp, and supplied the Japanese with propaganda material in the form of a letter.\n\n3.\n\n(Evidence: 1. Lip written in red pencil probably by a Jap. interpreter suggesting that a letter of protest should be sent to A.A.F. in CHINA.\n\n2. Pencilled draft letter with alterations in BOON's handwriting.\n\n3. Memo in ink and pencil probably from Jap. interpreter with request from Lt. TANAKA for proposed letter.\n\nTypewritten copy of actual letter sent by Major BOON dated 18 Oct. 44 found in office used by the Japanese.\n\nLetter with some amendments was published in H.K. News dated 20 Oct. 44 under the heading \"U.S. Officer's letter of protest\".\n\nDuring mid-September 1942 he subjected his fellow Ps/W to excessive, dangerous and harmful work, and deliberately failed or refused to exercise his authority to effect any improvement in working conditions, or to pass on protests to the Japanese.\n\n(Witnesses: Major ASHTON ROSS, I.M.S., Major J.D.A. GRAY, R.A.M.C., R.S.M., F.C. JONES, H.K.V.D.C., Capt. R.K. VALENTINE, o/i.c., H.K.V.D.C., Lt. SAINSBURY, D.D.C., Major GRIEVE, R.A.S.C., Capt. R.L. LANCASTER, R.A.S.C., Major F.T. ATKINSON, R.A.S.C., Detail No. 279, Sgt. G.H. FIERCY, H.K.V.D.C., C.S.M. COLLINS, P.O. VAN WAARDENBURG.)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-604-6 Immigration- control over entry from China 1-1-1947 - 4-1-1950",
        "page_number": 141,
        "title": "CO129-604-6 Immigration- control over entry from China 1-1-1947 - 4-1-1950",
        "content_text": "Circulated to:-\n\nSecretary of State Mr. Webber\n\nSir T. Lloyd\n\nMr. Rees-Williams Sir C. Jeffries\n\nSir H. Poynton\n\nMr. Gorell Barnes\n\nMr. Eastwood\n\nMr. Rogers\n\nMr. Galsworthy\n\nMr. Bennett\n\nBrig. Johnson\n\nColonial Attache\n\nMr. Bigg\n\nAccounts Branch\n\nMr. Holding\n\nRoom 445\n\nRoom 440\n\nMr. Paskin\n\nMr. Sidebotham\n\nW.I.J. Wallace\n\nMr. Radford\n\nMr. Cade.\n\nTo M.1-5. (M.E. Busk, Esq.)\n\n23/9\n\n145",
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        "document_key": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947",
        "content_text": "MR Calcior. They Me Sourdillas\n\nDe Webber.\n\nIndiand\n\nar\n\nJ7m. 19/3\n\n20\n\ndo\n\n480\n\nknow\n\nwhollen employed\n\nNo police herritories\".\n\nwöl wish W see\n\nso\n\n53054\n\nbes\n\nThis point is being taken\n\n15\n\nwith\n\n3\n\nup\n\nNorth Borneo and Sarawak on separate papers.\n\nMBRamage\n\n17.3.47\n\n57. From 9.0.- Ho styf Fel 3572 $13/3 for 9.93.-\n\nShy\n\nThe port has cropped\n\nother Eastern 'A' pp. (58745/3), where the Gor. Singapore has asked for consideration to be given to the recruitment of Surkles in place of the Socks, who were to form part of the Singapore Police Force.\n\ncourse,\n\nThe Surkhan, se subject to Nehru's ben\n\ntink it complications,\n\nThem\n\nwill not be\n\nbut lear\n\nwill refer N\n\nor the Aher file. I have arranged for copies of (53) o (54) to be placed\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "document_key": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947",
        "content_text": "6f To Your Hongkong Telmo 596 doc.\n\n65. 1.0. — d. 2947 6715-4-47 fr. G. I\n\n144171\n\n23\n\n16-4-47\n\n(63A)\n\n9 (65) can be put by further communication. Mr. Acheson see w. Webber's to await communication from Govt. of India! should minute of 22/3\n\n66.1.0. 171* D.3. Whyte ? Stel 3499 877-5-47 fr. India ? Inform H.K. as in draft. 8-5-47\n\nD. B. Whyte D.3. te 10/5.\n\n67 Hong Kong tel.767 13-5-47. Mr. Acheson\n\nI have passed and detached the telegram to Hong Kong, as I think that you should see this file without delay.\n\nIn view of the possibility that the Hong Kong Government may now try to contact the former members of the Indian Contingent individually with a view to securing their return to Hong Kong, it will be very desirable to let Hong Kong know without delay if we are going to lay down any general policy",
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        "content_text": "# \nthat send a similar communication to Ceylon as suggested for Palestine, mentioning Mr. Davies and asking the Governor to consider him with any other candidates he may have. We might add that the officer selected would be required to learn Cantonese (as Mr. Davies had difficulty in passing his Sinhalese and Tamil examinations). If the Governor then firmly recommends Mr. Davies, we should I think have no qualms in sending him to Hong Kong.\n\nIf any hitch occurs with Palestine and Ceylon we could then consider the candidates in the West Indian territories.\n\n**Proms. Branch (P.703)** to note.\n\nP.fs. should be noted.\n\nUp Boyle October, 1947.\n\nSent only a query with the Boyle's proposals, subject to the views of the drafts concerned.\n\n14/10/47.\n\nM. E.D.\n\nHe is not the brightest of those mentioned but only because he applied.\n\nI agree with the principle & with hu. Webber's minute above. Before the war the Police Force in M.K. was subject to criticism & I think it is essential that we should have good officers in the senior posts - hu. Davies' reports do not appear very good and if...",
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        "title": "CO129-611-6 Police Department- gazetted officers 24-12-1945 - 10-2-1948",
        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n**DRAFT TELEGRAM**\n**No. 182**\n\nDecember, 1947\n\nGOVERNOR, CEYLON\n\nMy Confidential telegram No. 92. Vacancy for Assistant Superintendent of Police, Hong Kong.\n\nGrateful to receive early reply.\n\n**FURTHER ACTION**\n\n| Ref. | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Wt. 29446/552 | 9/46 |\n| 54247/6/47 |  |\n| 10265 | 11/12 |\n\nTo: Mr. Boyle, Mr. Webber, Parly. U.S. of S., Mr. ... Secretary of State.\n\nFrom: ...\n\nD. 1. 1947\n\nNo.1 See Jal 10/147.\n\nSECER...",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-611-6 Police Department- gazetted officers 24-12-1945 - 10-2-1948",
        "page_number": 55,
        "title": "CO129-611-6 Police Department- gazetted officers 24-12-1945 - 10-2-1948",
        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nWt. 41936/587. 1/47. 50m. S. & S. Ltd.  \nWt. 47799/614. 2/47. 30m. S. & S. Ltd.\n\n54247/6/47. Hong Kong.\n\nMr. Boyle. 28/10/47 see minist  \nMr. Miss Smeed 24 to 29/10  \nMr. Shute  \nMr. Webber 30/10  \n\nCoded V Sent 14.30  \nRECEIVED 3 NOV 1947  \n3/11 54  \n\nCH. Permt. U.S. If S.  \nJe Sect  \nParly. U.S.S.  \nSecretary  \nStubo, at once  \nIn Tel. C.D. October, 1947.\n\nMiss Whyte 30  \nDRAFT  \nDRAFT. TELEGRAM  \nGOVERNOR, CEYLON.  \nYour Reference... No. 92  \n\nOn a salary of £1050 the rates are £260 and £120.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.  \nConfirmation by an immediate mail.\n\nCandidates are required immediately to fill two vacancies in Hong Kong for Assistant Superintendents of Police, salary £400 per annum for the first two years, then £520 - £1,050 by six annual increments of £25, one of £90, five of £30, one of £40 and two of £50 (salary subject to revision on the recommendations of the Salaries Commission).\n\nNon-pensionable residential allowance at the rate of 10% on first £400, 5% on second £400 and 2.5% on any balance up to a maximum of £1,200 per annum is payable while the officer is in actual residence in the Colony, and a temporary non-pensionable high cost of living allowance is payable at a rate of $200.\n\nSalaries subject to local taxation.  \nIf unfurnished Government quarters are provided, 12% is deducted from salary; if furnished Government quarters are provided, an extra 1% is deducted. An allowance is made if Government quarters are not available.\n\nHousing position still far...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-623-1 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-4-1950 - 31-1-1951",
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        "content_text": "2C 1950\n\n€3508/1\n\nHONG KONG and PACIFIC\n\n€3508/\n\nKONG\n\nSHOE\n\nLABOR CONDITIONS\n\nH\n\nRUBBER / INDUSTRY\n\nCLOSED\n\nUNTIL /\n\n1764\n\nPrevious\n\nHAYES\n\nSubsequent 53508/1/1951\n\nSee 97261/17/1/1950\n\n2 (Marketing of H.K.\n\nH. 45%\n\nRubber Footwear)\n\n29/4\n\nMr Fairclough 23/4\n\n452\n\n267/11\n\n241\n\nMr Fairclough... Im Poggen (1) 29/11\n\nTim\n\n4452\n\nThe Joggen\n\nA Fairclough (A)\n\n452\n\nMr Anderson\n\n417\n\nMr Anderson (#404), also Mr\n\nMr Fairclough, H. Anderson\n\nMar Andersen,\n\n11404.\n\n45\n\n6/5\n\nMr\n\n~ Fairclough\n\nMatic\n\nthe Edwards\n\nTowards\n\n2/5 untoqqosa ~/\n\n'M' Fairclough 12/5\n\n1+12\n\nX\n\n7/12\n\n8/x11\n\n5/1\n\n41m\n\nToft.\n\n201\n\nRef..\n\nv 194\n\ndur Joggen 22/1\n\n#b. HX52\n\nIn Sike botham (1) 13/5 M Fairclough\n\n23/11\n\n24/\n\nI'm\n\nIn Joggen (1) wis\n\n(2) thi Hl Hall\n\n24/1\n\nAm\n\n(hm Emanuel (5) 17/\n\n431\n\n26/1\n\n4.452\n\nHo3\n\nIn Fairclough 15/1\n\n4452 X\n\n4445\n\n4x57\n\n15/4\n\nAlec Edwards.\n\n23/2\n\n15/11\n\nH452\n\n25/11\n\nFILE A\n\nW.t. 39362 53#1 20.450 in 15 serta 2/50 TCP/JR",
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        "content_text": "I B.O.T. 11 1914\n\nfor Registral.con Geog ph.\n\nSOCIAL SERVICE\n\n24 APR 1000 REGISTRY\n\nMr. Hall\n\n17. 4.\n\n50.\n\n2\n\nI attach a further letter from the Board of Trade about rubber conditions in Hong Kong, in particular, the rubber footwear industry. I spoke to Miss Dennehy to find out what was behind this and I gather that one of the U.K. manufacturers has recently spoken to the President of the Board of Trade and that there have been a number of complaints by the industry as a whole to the Board of Trade.\n\nI pointed out that without any agreed definition about what constitutes \"sweated\" we should be in some difficulty in answering the questions, but I undertook to pass the enquiry on to you. No doubt the Labour Advisers will be consulted on the action to be taken and I should also like to see, in due course, as there are certain questions of principle relating to the development of secondary industries in the Colonies.\n\nMr Foggon\n\n18th April, 1950\n\nHave you any inf. which might be incorporated in a reply to (1) - with particular reference to (d) therein?\n\nThe composition of serious replies to this sort of question involves a deal of hard work including, presumably, reference to H.K. great...\n\nOne would be inclined...",
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        "content_text": "to grudge this less it was not obvious that self interest is the only really valid motive behind\n\nthe enquiry. that until we agree with Mr Emanuel we can get an agreed definition of the term \"sweated labour\" it is difficult to\n\nindeed I see no point might I suggest answer the questions as in trying to do so point this out to Miss Dennely committal reply touching briefly\n\non the differences between Chinese and U.K. standards well thing between the two Camparison make very difficult.\n\nJ.J. Andersm\n29/4",
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        "content_text": "Self-interest is often a stimulant to an otherwise sluggish social conscience! The definition of 'sweating' should not create much difficulty but applying it to the particular conditions of Hong Kong certainly will. The phrase used to cover 'sweated' trades in this country at the time of the introduction of the first Trade Boards Act (1909) was - any branch of a trade where the rate of wages applying was \"exceptionally low as compared with that in other employments\". The agitation of the 1885-90 period which resulted in the setting up of a Select Committee of the House of Lords was directed at those trades where wages paid 'were not reasonable and on which no person could be expected to subsist'. A good definition of a 'sweated' trade might well combine the two and might read \"A trade or industry or a branch of any trade or industry where the rate of wages prevailing is exceptionally low as compared with that in other employments and on which no person could reasonably be expected to subsist.\"\n\nI agree that these enquiries absorb a lot of time but it may well be that a state of things exists in the rubber trade in Hong Kong which requires some corrective action. The trade unions are very weak outside the public utilities and collective bargaining machinery is hardly developed at all; moreover, the Governor's powers to establish statutory wage-fixing machinery have not yet been used. In the circumstances, I think we are justified in asking the Government of Hong Kong for some information about (b), (c), and (d) of (1) opposite, except that (d) might be worded \"Are wages, even though low by United Kingdom standards, reasonable by comparison with other trades in Hong Kong and adjacent Far Eastern territories.\"\n\n1/5/50.\n\n54444/8/50\n\n1/4452\n\nPl. auch\n\npps Jealing with the H.K. shirt industry (now with the sups)\n\nrecire.\n\nalso\n\nthe latest\n\nLabour dept.\n\ndept. report\n\nJ.J. Anderson\n\nMr Fairclough.\n\nConference is over.\n\nWe spoke about this matter.\n\nperhaps you control of these pps.\n\nSince your wish to resume\n\nYou wish to consider whether we may not give a general answer to the Board covering industrial conditions generally.\n\nMr Dyson lot the Board",
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        "content_text": "of the Board informs me that they have had 5 similar enquiries from artificial jewellery manufacturers in this country (as well as shirt rubber manufacturers).\n\nto me\n\nas if British Industry\n\nfrom\n\nit looks\n\nin\n\ngeneral are\n\nH.K.\n\ngoing to become\n\nMr Dyson\n\naware of competition from\n\nalso tells\n\nthat the\n\nPresident is\n\nthis matter.\n\nI attach\n\na\n\nme taking a personal interest in\n\nJ.J. Anderson\n\n6/5.\n\ncopy letter which I think\n\nadequately answers Miss Dennehy's questions. We need not trouble the\n\nGovernor.\n\n12/5/50\n\nTo: Miss M.W. Dennehy (B.O.T).\n\n17.5.50.\n\nFrom: J.O.\n\nHong Kong\n\nLow 444\n\nConf.\n\non 12255/17/50)\n\n3\n\n4\n\nPQ/1 (re FUNG KEE & KWONG YEE factory) from 22.11.50\n\n*/ 4/w may issue 53508/1/PA1/50\n\nref.",
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        "content_text": "In Hall\n\nI think the simplest way of getting the right sort of facts for dealing with this report from the H.K. Kowloon T.V.C. is to send a copy to H.K. as in offr. h/w. We should get an answer in 2 to 3 weeks.\n\n22/11/50\n\nHong Kong Austin(27/56) – A. Fairclough\n\nThe question hangs up ready and asked if we could return to document (9) which is apparently their only copy.\n\nor would it be possible for you to have copied only the direct allegations, to free the document?\n\n5/11\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nb. Hood.\n\nI have had the document certified; the original is now with A. Paniconi.\n\n5/12/50\n\nThank you.\n\n4/12/50\n\n7/12\n\nConf. Dish 141\n\n24/12/50\n\nYou will be interested to see (11) reply to (10). I have filed (11).\n\nI have a great deal of trust in 'x' in Hong Kong, in that there should be much information in (11); (except for that in para 15 which we are specifically asked to treat as strictly confidential) to send to the T.U.C.\n\n5/1/51\n\nI think H.K. have gone to a great deal of trouble in preparing (11) & after the Hong Kong has seen & taken action on it.\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "Page 11\n\nPage 11\n\nwe might consider thanking H.K. for this detached report,\n\nI notice that mention was made of \"offs\" for \"conson\" by with reference to para 152, the speculation and its consequences on 20/12/50, 94261/14/1/50 attached.\n\nAs we have been asked to treat the matter as confidential, I have not specifically mentioned it in the aft. Neither have I included any info similar to that contained in the last para 4 on the same file.\n\nI was not sure whether to do so would be good policy.\n\nH. Hall, I have marked your letter to Bildwards. 10/1/61. 79/1 all over.\n\nYou will see the TUP in which K. Frivelaugh's minutes & etto f.a. preshadowed sts for Jan. have taken into que Jan. see thème pipes.\n\n12 To W. Hood, Ypt. Hause. Ref to Mr Halli see men's 6/1, 221/1. 221. 22.1.51 age 10\n\nage 10\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "53508/1/51\n\nDear\n\nis Claud,\n\nA\n\n12\n\n15 Victoria Street,\n\nLondon S.W.1.\n\n22 January, 1951.\n\n22 JAN 1951\n\nYou may remember that last November you handed me a copy of a report by the General Secretary of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trade Union Council on the subject of the Fung Keong Rubber Factory. Some enquiries have now been made locally about the allegations which this report contained and you will be glad to know that they are completely unfounded. At the risk of boring you with a lot of detail I am giving you below a full account of the true situation.\n\nThe Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory Limited is a limited liability company, with factories in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. The Managing Director of the Company lives in Malaya. The Fung Keong factory in Hong Kong, which has been established about 30 years, during which time it has never been known to close down, even temporarily, is in charge of a General Manager and a Factory Manager. The factory suffered considerable damage during the war years and after Hong Kong was liberated, much rehabilitation work had to be carried out. This work was completed in 1949. Up to March 1950 the factory was employing between 1,500 to 1,600 persons, but between March and August this number was reduced to between 1,100 to 1,200. It is estimated that 80% of the workers are employed on a piece work basis and the remainder on a daily wage basis. No workers are employed on monthly terms.\n\nThe factory has always been noted for the high standard of its products and for its businesslike methods.\n\nW. HOOD ESQ.\n\nWage",
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        "content_text": "Wage rates, both for piece work and daily work, have usually been above average for the industry. They have never been lower than average. The management has been known always to show interest in the welfare of the workers, many of whom have been employed at the factory for a long time.\n\nOf the products of the factory, it is stated that 90% of the goods were exported to the United Kingdom, while local sales and exports to other parts of the world were very limited.\n\nWe are unable to guarantee the accuracy of these statements, but there is no doubt that the bulk of the business done by the factory was made up of exports to the United Kingdom.\n\nThe normal working day in the factory was 9 hours, and daily paid workers received overtime pay at the rate of time and a half for any period worked in excess of 9 hours. Piece rate workers were not paid special rates for overtime.\n\nSince March 1950, there has been a steady decline in business at the factory, and the management give two reasons for this. They are\n\n(a) the increase in the cost of rubber, and\n\n(b) under selling by United Kingdom competitors resulting\n\nin a gradual loss of the U.K. market.\n\nBoth these causes have contributed towards a steady decline in business culminating in the closing down of the factory. In circumstances described later, it is obviously very difficult for the workers to understand and appreciate that\n\nthe",
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        "content_text": "the sudden closure of this long established and well reputed factory is not a lightning look out but the result of economic difficulties.\n\nExamination of the factory's books proves that between March and August 1950 there was a steady decline in the number of workers employed so that between 300 and 400 workers had left the factory by July. 30 to 40 workers were laid off in May but apart from this there is no evidence of any laying off and there is no reason to doubt the management's statement that those who left did so of their own free will, because the decline in the amount of business reduced the amount which could be earned on a piece work basis. The management admit that between March and July they made some attempts to reduce the number of workers in order to provide fuller employment for the remainder. These attempts were resisted by the workers who preferred to accept lower earnings so as to maintain continuous employment for all. By the end of July the majority of piece workers was only working about 3 hours daily.\n\nPrior to March 1950, the wages of daily-paid workers ranged from $1.9 a day to $2.50. In March these wages were increased to $2.30 and $3.10 respectively with parallel increases in the intermediate grades. When the factory closed daily paid workers were still being paid at these increased rates.\n\nThe workers are divided between two unions - the Hong Kong Rubber Shoe Workers' Union and the Hong Kong and Kowloon Rubber and Plastic Workers' General Union. The first of these, which claims a membership in the factory of 700 workers, is one of the unions affiliated to the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (right wing). The second, which claims 400 workers, is affiliated to the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions which is left wing.\n\nThere\n\n \nhas been a correction of spelling and minor errors, and formatting has been done according to the given rules.",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nThose figures were taken at random from the factory's books and they bear out the statements of certain women workers who have been interviewed by the Commissioner of Labour. The lowest daily earnings of any worker in July were 70 to 30 cents, representing 2 to 3 hours work.\n\nIt has been alleged that the closure of the factory has been quoted by the Communist controlled newspapers as propaganda against the I.C.F.T.U. but we are informed that a perusal of the local press does not bear this out.\n\nApart from the basic misconception which lies behind the Hang Dong and Kowloon Trade Union Council's attitude, the tone of this 'appeal' may to some extent be attributable to understand the anxiety of the local leaders to stress the activity of their organisation and its international connections.\n\nI hope that you find the information in this letter of value.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(G. Foggon)\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "[601B] Wt. 36325/814 50m. 1/49 C.N.Ld. 748\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Edwards 9/1.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Laggen 19/1\n\nM 8/1.\n\nYour Reference..\n\n53508/1/51.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMinister of State\n\nSecretary of State\n\nDRAFT. Letter for the Minister's signature.\n\nW. Hood Eag,\n\nColonial Dept, Trade Union Congress,\n\nTransport House,\n\nSmith Square,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nSome enquiries have been made locally about the allegations which the report contained. We should be glad if you could let us know that they are unfounded.\n\nDear Sir,\n\n20th Jan 50.\n\nYou may remember that last November you handed us some copy. We have made enquiries through the Govt. of Hong Kong into the allegations made in the report by the Gen. Secretary of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council on the subject of the Fung Keang Rubber Factory. Official instigation has been completely unfounded.\n\nThat the Yung Keong Rubber Mfg. Factory Ltd. is a limited liability company, with factories in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. The Managing Director is ...\n\nAt the risk of causing a lot of detail, we report below an account of the Company's affairs.\n\nThe Yung Keong factory in Hong Kong, which has been established for about 30 years, during which time it has never been known to close down even temporarily, is in charge of...\n\nPage 21\n\n12\n\n \nFURTHER ACTION.",
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        "content_text": "22\n\na\n\nGeneral Manager and a Factory Manager.\n\nSuffered considerable damage during the war after Hong Kong was liberated, much rehabilitation work had to be carried out. This work was completed in 1949.\n\nOn 16 March 1950 the factory was employing between 1500 to 1600 persons; but between March and August this number was reduced to between 1100 to 1200. It is estimated that 80% of the workers are employed on a piece work basis, and the remainder on a daily wage basis. No workers are employed on monthly terms.\n\nThe factory has always been noted for the high standard of its products and for its businesslike methods. Wage rates, both for piece work and daily work, have usually been above average for the industry. They have always shown interest in the welfare of the workers, many of whom have been employed in the factory for a long time.\n\nThe management",
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        "content_text": "in the steady decline of business circumstances, little by little, it became very difficult for the workers to understand and appreciate that the sudden closure of an established and well-reputed factory is not a sudden event but the result of economic difficulties.\n\nExamination of the factory's books proves there was a steady decline in the number of workers employed between March and August 1950. So that between 300 and 400 workers had left the factory by July. 30 to 40 workers were laid off in May, but apart from this, there is no evidence to doubt the management's statement that those who left did so of their own free will, because the decline in the amount of business reduced the amount which could be earned on a piece-work basis, although the rates for piece work remained unaltered.\n\nThe management admit that they made some attempts to reduce the number of workers in order to provide fuller employment for the remainder. These attempts were resisted by the workers, who preferred to accept lower earnings so as to maintain continuous employment for all. By the end of July, the majority of piece workers were only working about 3 hours daily.\n\nPrior to March 1950, the wages of daily-paid workers had not changed.",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nDRAFT.\n\n25\n\n3\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMinister of State\n\nSecretary of State\n\nYour Reference.......\n\nranged from $9 a day to $2.50. In March these were increased to $9.30 and $3.10 respectively parallel increases in the intermediate daily paid factory wages with grades when the workers were still being paid at these increased rates.\n\nThe workers are divided between two unions: the Hong Kong Rubber Shoe Workers' Union and the Hong Kong Kowloon Rubber and Plastic Workers' General Union. The first of these, which claims a factory of 100 workers, is affiliated to the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (right wing). The second, which claims 400 workers, is affiliated to the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (left wing).\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nThere has been considerable rivalry between these unions, though the difference in political outlook has not been prominent. The Chairman and the Secretary of the I.C.F.T.U. delegation (Colle, Ballay, and M. Krane) I invited...",
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        "content_text": "26\n\nHoi Chise, the Signatory visited the Hung Keong factory at the suggestion of Fung Hoi Chin, of the Hong Kong and Kowloon T.U.C. They were accompanied by a Labour Office interpreter. The management of the factory gave all facilities for the visit which was conducted in a friendly atmosphere. In one case, piece workers were asked what they were earning. They gave figures of 80 or 90 cents a day, explaining that business was very poor and there was very little work to be divided amongst all of the workers.\n\nLate in the evening of Tuesday, the management announced the closure of the factory and posted notices outside the head office and the factory gates. On Saturday, the 12th August, the management announced to this effect and posted notice. This notice announced that all workers would be paid off on the 8th August and would receive one day's pay in lieu of notice.\n\nThere is no doubt whatsoever that the Factory Management was acting under the direct orders of the Managing Director, transmitted from Kuala Lumpur. The local Manager knew in advance that the factory was to be closed and had no say in the decision. The decision to close the factory was put into effect between two and three weeks after it was made, but the notice to the workers was delayed because the Managing Director feared that damage might be done to the machinery. The Factory Manager endeavoured to secure relaxation of this order but his efforts were in vain.\n\nInevitably, the sudden closure caused considerable consternation among the workers and it was regarded as a lock-out. An immediate appeal to the Labour Dept resulted in both sides meeting to discuss the situation, with workers' representatives - particularly those representing the ICFTU.",
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        "content_text": "Page 363\n\n[601B] Wt. 36325/814 50m. 1/49 C.N.Ld. 748\n\n# Permt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMinister of State\n\nSecretary of State\n\n27\n\nYour Reference........\n\nrefused\n\nHong Kong Rubber Shoe Workers Union - refused to accept the statement that the closure was due to lack of business, not to any labour dispute. As a consequence of this attitude, they would not accept the management's explanation and pay due to them, and they picketed the factory.\n\nIn order to keep the peace, police were stationed in the vicinity of the factory. It was a clash between these pickets and some workers who insisted on working that led to police protection being called.\n\nBetween the 9th and the 29th December, several meetings \"arranged by the Hong Kong Labour Dept\" were held between the management and the workers. During the course of these meetings, various suggestions have been made for the resumption of work, all of which failed because the factory management state categorically that they are not permitted, neither are they in a position to reopen the factory, until raw material again becomes available at an economic price.\n\nIt should be mentioned that the Locus Manager and his accountant were severely assaulted by some of the pickets on one occasion and had to be...\n\nRecommended further action.\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nthis is little prospect of the factory I being\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "H.P. 28\n\nrespected. I. During the last three weeks in December rigorous representations to the Commissioner of Labour in Hong Kong have been made by the local Manager to the Commissioner of Labour, which have resulted in securing agreement to the payment of one week's wages to all workers employed by the Managing Director. This offer will probably be acceptable to the workers who are members of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Rubber and Plastic Worker's General Union, and the Hong Kong Worker's General Union, but the representatives of the Rubber Shoe Workers have continued to demand further concessions and have refused to consider it, alleging that the factory should remain closed.\n\nWe now turn to the immediate re-opening of the factory. The facts of this case are set out in the report submitted by the Hong Kong T.U.C., which are as follows:\n\n(i) As a result of the visit by the I.C.F.T.U. delegation to Hong Kong and Kowloon in July 1950, and the information given to its members regarding rates of pay, etc., in the factory, the employer:\n\n(a) first attempted the provincial dismissal of workers, and when this failed because of the workers' opposition, \n\n(b) closed entirely the factory on the 8th August 1960, with the intention of breaking the spirit of the workers with a view to resuming work at lower rates.\n\n(ii) That police were called in on behalf of the employer to assist him in a trade dispute.\n\n(iii) That the number of workers involved was approximately [number].\n\n(iv) That although such action contravened Govt regulations forbidding workers to strike and employers to lock out, no official action was taken against the employer for his sudden closure.\n\n(v) That the I.C.F.T.U. delegation's visit to the factory was damned by the local ...",
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        "content_text": "30\n\nof\n\nLabour Hong Kong personally, show the decrease in piece work earnings between March and July.\n\nThe books produced to him were genuine factory pay books and had not been tampered with in any way.\n\nThe figures show the average daily earnings of five piece-workers for three to day periods in March and July respectively.\n\n  \n    March\n    $3.90\n    $5.40\n    Experienced woman Worker\n    $1.20\n    $1.90\n    $2.80\n    $1.50\n    $2.80\n    Learner\n    $1.00\n    $3.50\n    $1.10\n    $3.40\n    $1.30\n    $4.20\n  \n  \n    July\n    $1.30\n    $4.30\n    Experienced Worker\n    $1.20\n    $1.60\n    $3.20\n    Learner\n    $1.30\n    $3.40\n    $1.40\n    $2.40\n    $3.00\n    Learner\n    $1.40\n    $4.00\n    $2.00\n  \n\nThese figures were taken at random from the factory's books and they bear out the statements of certain women workers who have been interviewed by the Commissioner of Labour.\n\nThe lowest daily earnings of any worker in representing 2 to 3 hours work were 70 cents to 80 cents.\n\n(ii) The presence of police at the factory has already been explained.\n\n(iii) The Local Manager of the factory and his Accountant were severely assaulted by some of the pickets on the 24th November, and had to seek police protection.\n\nThe number of workers involved is not more than 1200.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "It has been alleged that the closure of the factory has been used by communist-controlled local newspapers, e.g., the \"Aguilar\" and \"Perumal\" newspapers, to spread misinformation.\n\nNaradanova has been informed that she will not be heard out.\n\nIf the local press does not correct the misconception from which lies spread to Hong Kong and Kowloon, trade will be affected.\n\nUnder the Council's authority, I hope to understand to some extent the circumstances attributable to the local situation.\n\nI wish to stress that they act with the leaders of their organization and its international connections.\n\nI hope that you will find the letter of some value.\n\nYou will find the information useful.\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "Page 363\n\n[601B] Wt. 36325/814 50m, 1/49 C.N.Ld. 748\n\nC. O.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\n6\n\n1\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMinister of State\n\nSecretary of State\n\nYour Reference........ 32\n\nDRAFT.\n\n(iv) this allegation can only be understood on the assumption that it refers to the law restricting strikes and lock-outs in essential industries covered by The Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs Ordinance.\n\nObercially, if it does not apply to this closure which is not even the result of a trade dispute.\n\n(r) the two main left-wing papers of the vernacular press have revealed no evidence in support of this allegation.\n\n(vi) the general allegations that the management was: (a) uniono generally (b) deliberately setting a pattern of action for other employers, and (c) prepared to discriminate against the Hong Kong Rubber Shoe Workers Union in favor of the Hong Kong Rubber and Plastic Worker's General Union, cannot be accepted.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nThey naturally arise from the misconception of the causes already referred to and from the jealousy which exists between the two unions. It is a fact that the members of the latter union have shown more readiness to face the realities of the situation and doubtless more restraint, and this has annoyed the rival union.\n\n/ (vii)\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "33\n\n(vii) This is admitted. It is most unfortunate that the management of this factory should have failed to appreciate the effects of such an action and the hardship which it would inevitably entail. The fault, however, lies with the Managing Director in Malaya who has placed his local representatives in an impossible position. Such a sudden closure by a firm of the standing and importance of the Fung Keong should have been followed by ... and is by no means feminis, but it is indeed surprising and distressing that this course has been followed.\n\nWe feel sure that in the circumstances you will appreciate that nothing could be done in Hong Kong to prevent this occurrence and, in view of the fact that all of the workers were on daily wages, they had no claim for wages in lieu of notice.\n\nIn conclusion, we consider that considerable sympathy is felt for the workers involved in this matter and it is not hard to understand the misconception which has led to the writing of the letter by the local T.U.C., although it is felt that it would be as well not to accept this kind of statement too readily. In connection with this case, it is reported that the statements contained in letters from the Hong Kong & Kowloon Trade Union Council are not correct. Despite their high-sounding rhetoric, neither the Council nor the Hong Kong & Kowloon Trade Union Federation are composed of men of sufficient experience to appreciate the need for a thorough investigation before committing themselves to statements of alleged facts. In particular, the Council is at the moment somewhat excited by the attention it has received from the I.C.F.T.U. and its leaders, and is very anxious to stress the importance of their organisation and its international connections.\n\nYours sincerely,",
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        "content_text": "L/M 538/50c No.141\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nSir,\n\n34 ||\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\nHONG KONG.\n\n29 December, 1950.\n\n(10)\n\nWith reference to your savingram No.1227 of the 27th November on the subject of the Fung Keong Rubber Factory, I have the honour to furnish comments on the report received by the Trades Union Council from the Hong Kong & Kowloon Trades Union Council. The allegations made in the report may shortly be summed up as:\n\nI.\nII.\nIII.\nIV.\nV.\nVI.\nVII.\n\nAs a result of the visit by the I.C.F.T.U. delegation to the factory in July, 1950, and the information given on this occasion to its members regarding rates of pay, etc., in the factory, the employers:\n\n(a) first attempted piecemeal dismissal of workers, and when this failed because of the\n(b) workers' opposition, closed entirely\n\non the 8th August, 1950, with the intention of breaking the spirit of the workers with a view to being able to resume work, paying lower rates.\n\nThat police were called in on behalf of the employer to assist him in a trade dispute.\n\nThat the number of workers involved was 1,700.\n\nThat although such action contravened Government regulations forbidding workers to strike and employers to lock out, no official action was taken against the employer in spite of his sudden closure of the factory.\n\nThat the I.C.F.T.U. delegation's visit was claimed by the local Communist newspapers as the immediate cause of the closure.\n\nGeneral allegations that the management were opposed to the formation of unions and that on resumption of work they would probably discriminate against union representatives. That they had pursued the policy of setting off one union against another and that they were deliberately setting a pattern which other employers would be likely to follow.\n\nThat the closure was immediate and that absolutely no notice whatever was given to the workers.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nJAMES GRIFFITHS, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\n35\n\n2.\n\nBefore attempting to deal with these allegations in detail it will be helpful to give a summary of the facts of this case which have been brought out by official investigation.\n\n3.\n\nThe Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory Limited is a limited liability company with factories in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. The Managing Director, Fung Keong, resides in Malaya. The Hong Kong factory is under the control of a General Manager, Fung Che Yee (son of Fung Keong) and a Factory Manager, Au Kai Ming. Both Fung Che Yee and Au Kai Ming are stated to be Directors of the firm, but it is doubtful whether the latter has any say in policy.\n\nThe Hong Kong factory has been established about 30 years, during which time it has never been known to close down, even temporarily. The factory suffered considerable damage during the war years and after the liberation of the Colony much rehabilitation work had to be carried out which was not completed until 1949. Up to March, 1950, the factory was employing between 1,500 and 1,600 persons, but between March and August this number was reduced to between 1,100 and 1,200. About 80% of the workers are employed on a piece-work basis, while 20% are on daily wages. None of the workers are on monthly terms.\n\n5.\n\nThis factory has always been noted for the high standard of its products and for the business-like way in which it has been run. Piece-work rates and daily wages have usually been higher and have never been lower than the average of the industry, and the management has always shown an interest in the welfare of its workers, many of whom have been working with the factory for a long time.\n\n6.\n\nIt is stated that 90% of the trade of the factory was composed of exports to the United Kingdom. Local sales and export to other parts of the world were very limited. While I am not in a position to guarantee the complete accuracy of these statements, there is no doubt that the bulk of the business done by the Hong Kong factory was made up of export orders to the United Kingdom.\n\n7.\n\nThe normal working day in the factory was nine hours; overtime at the rate of time and a half was paid to daily-paid workers for work in excess of this period. Piece-workers did not receive special rates for overtime.\n\n8.\n\nSince March, 1950, there has been a steady decline in business. The management attribute this to two causes:\n\n(a) the increase in the cost of rubber, and\n\n(b) under selling by United Kingdom competitors resulting in a gradual loss of the United Kingdom market.",
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        "content_text": "Undoubtedly both these causes have been operative, though as you will see later I am now doubtful whether they were themselves the immediate cause of the factory being closed. Examination of the factory's books proves that between March and August, 1950, there was a steady decline in the number of workers employed, so that between 300 and 400 workers had left the factory by July. Thirty to forty workers were laid off in May, but apart from this there is no evidence of any substantial laying-off and there is no reason to doubt the statement of the management that those who left did so of their own free will because the decline in the volume of business reduced the amount which could be earned on a piece-work basis, although the rates for piece-work remained unaltered. The management admit that between March and July they did make some attempts to reduce the number of workers so as to give fuller employment to the remainder. These attempts were resisted by the workers who preferred to accept lower earnings so as to maintain continuous employment for all. By the end of July the position was such that the majority of the piece-workers was only working about 3 hours a day.\n\n9. Prior to March, 1950, the wages of daily-paid workers ranged from $0.89 a day to $2.50. In March these wages were increased to $0.93 and $3.10 respectively with parallel increases in the intermediate grades. When the factory closed daily-paid workers were still being paid at these increased rates.\n\n10. The workers are divided between two unions: the Hong Kong Rubber Shoe Workers' Union and the Hong Kong and Kowloon Rubber & Plastic Workers' General Union. The first of these, which claims a membership in the factory of 700 workers, is one of the unions affiliated to the Hong Kong & Kowloon Trades Union Council (right-wing). The second, which claims 400 workers, is affiliated to the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, which is left-wing. There has been considerable rivalry between these unions, though the difference in political outlook has not been prominent.\n\n11. In July the Chairman and the Secretary of the I.C.F.T.U. delegation (Mr. Dalley and Mr. Krane) visited this factory at the suggestion of Fung Hoi Chiu, the signatory of the letter under reference, who is the Secretary of the Council. They were accompanied by a Labour Officer who, on occasions, acted as interpreter. The management gave all facilities for the visit, which was carried out in a thoroughly friendly atmosphere. In one or two cases piece-workers were asked what they were earning. They gave figures of 80 cents or 90 cents a day, explaining that business was very poor and there was very little work to be divided amongst all of the workers. So far as is known, the I.C.F.T.U. delegates did not take up the question of earnings with either the management or the workers.\n\n12. Late in the evening of Tuesday, August 8th, the management announced the closure of the factory and posted notices to this effect outside the head office and the factory gates. This notice announced that all",
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        "content_text": "37 workers would be paid off on Saturday, August 12th, and would receive one day's pay in lieu of notice. In making this announcement, there is no doubt whatsoever that the Factory Manager was acting under the direct orders of the Managing Director transmitted to him from Kuala Lumpur. The local management had no say in the matter at all. There is reason to believe that the Factory Manager knew of the decision to close the factory between two and three weeks before the closure was put into effect. He was, however, expressly debarred from giving any advance notice to the workers because the Managing Director feared that damage might be done to the machinery. He states that he endeavoured to secure relaxation of this order but that his efforts were in vain.\n\nInevitably, this sudden closure of a long-established and well-reputed factory caused considerable consternation among the workers and it appears that they regarded this closure as a lightning lock-out. An immediate appeal to the Labour Department resulted in both sides meeting to discuss the situation, but the workers' representatives - particularly those representing the Hong Kong Rubber Shoe Workers' Union - refused to accept the statement of the management that closure was due not to any labour dispute but simply to lack of business. As a consequence of this attitude they would not accept their pay and they picketed the factory in order to prevent any of the other workers being paid off. It was a clash between these pickets and some workers who insisted upon drawing the money due to them which led to police being stationed in the vicinity of the factory to keep the peace.\n\nBetween August 9th and the present date, 28 meetings between workers and factory management have been arranged by the Labour Department, during the course of which various suggestions have been made for resuming work, all of which have failed because the factory management state categorically that they are not permitted, and are not in a position, to re-open the factory. During the last three weeks vigorous representations made to the local Manager by the Commissioner of Labour have resulted in securing agreement on the part of the Managing Director to the payment of one week's wages to all workers employed at the time when the factory closed. This offer will probably be accepted by the workers who are members of the Hong Kong & Kowloon Rubber & Plastic Workers' General Union, but the representatives of the Hong Kong Rubber Shoe Workers' Union have so far refused to consider it and continue to demand immediate re-opening of the factory.\n\nThe fact of the matter is that the long record and high standing of this factory makes it very difficult for the workers to realise that the closure is in fact due to economic causes over which the local Factory Manager has no control. In this connection, I have received information from a most trustworthy source that the closure is due not merely to a steady decline in business but to the fact that the firm is virtually bankrupt following speculation in the rubber market in Malaya. I regret that I must request that this information, which was given to me in Executive Council, be treated as strictly confidential, though it is possible that you may be able to obtain independent confirmation from Kuala Lumpur.",
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        "content_text": "57\n\n37A\n\n16.\n\nTurning now to the allegations in detail, it is clear that they are all, but particularly the first one, based on a misconception of the underlying causes of the closure. There is no evidence that the employer resented the visit of the I.C.F.T.U. delegation or that he was in any apprehension that he might be called upon to increase his wage rates. As has already been explained, there had been a considerable decrease in the daily earnings of piece-workers, but this was not due to lowering of piece-rates but to a steady diminution in the volume of work available and to the workers' refusal to secure more work at the expense of some of their number. The following figures, extracted from the books of the company by the Commissioner of Labour personally, show the decrease in piece-work earnings between March and July, 1950. The Commissioner of Labour is satisfied that the books produced to him were genuine factory pay books and had not been tampered with in any way. The figures show the average daily earnings of five women piece-workers for three 10-day periods in March and July respectively:\n\n  \n    March\n    July\n  \n  \n    $ 3.90\n    $ 1.20\n  \n  \n    5.40 Experienced worker\n    5.60\n    .90\n    1.00\n  \n  \n    $ 2.80\n    $ 1.50\n  \n  \n    2.80 Learner\n    1.10\n  \n  \n    $3.40\n    1.30\n  \n  \n    4.20 Experienced worker\n    4.30\n    % 1.70\n    1.30\n    1.20\n  \n  \n    $ 1.60\n    \n  \n  \n    3.20 Learner\n    3.40\n    $ 2.40\n    \n  \n  \n    3.00 Learner\n    4.00\n    1.30\n    1.70\n  \n  \n    % 1.40\n    1.40\n    2.00\n  \n\nThese figures were taken at random from the factory's books and they bear out the statements of certain women workers who have been interviewed by the Commissioner of Labour. The lowest daily earnings of any worker in July were 70 cents to 80 cents, which represent 2 - 3 hours' work.\n\nII. I have already explained the presence of police at the factory. In this connection I might add that on the 24th November, 1950, the local Manager and his Accountant were severely assaulted by some of the pickets and had to seek police protection.\n\nIII. The number of workers involved is not more than 1,200.\n\nIV. This allegation can only be understood on the assumption that it refers to the law restricting strikes and lock-outs in essential industries covered by the Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs Ordinance. Obviously it does not apply to this closure which is not even the result of a trade dispute.",
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        "content_text": "6\n\n38\n\n刈\n\nV. Perusal of the two main left-wing papers of the vernacular press reveals no evidence in support of this allegation.\n\nVI.\n\nThe general allegations that the management was:\n\n(a) anti-unions generally,\n\n(b) deliberately setting a pattern of action for other employers, and\n\n(c) prepared to discriminate against the Hong Kong Rubber Shoe Workers' Union in favour of the Hong Kong & Kowloon Rubber & Plastic Workers' General Union, cannot be accepted.\n\nThey arise naturally from the misconception of the causes of the closure already referred to and from the jealousy which exists between the two unions. It is a fact that the members of the latter union have shown far more restraint and far more readiness to face the realities of the situation and this no doubt has annoyed the rival union.\n\nVII. This is admitted. It is most unfortunate that the management of this factory should have failed to appreciate the effects of such an action and the hardship which it would inevitably entail. The fault, however, lies with the Managing Director in Malaya who has placed his local representatives in an impossible position. Such sudden closures are by no means uncommon among the smaller Chinese firms, but it is indeed surprising and distressing that this course of action should have been followed by a firm of the standing and importance of the Fung Keong. You will, I am sure, appreciate that in the circumstances there was nothing which could be done in Hong Kong to prevent this unfortunate occurrence and, in view of the fact that all of the workers were either on piece-rates or daily wages, they have no legal claim for wages in lieu of notice.\n\n17.\n\nI have considerable sympathy for the workers involved in this matter and I think it is fairly easy to understand the misconception which has led to the writing of the letter by the local Trades Union Council. I would, however, like to give a word of warning against too ready acceptance of statements which are contained in letters of this nature. In spite of their high-sounding titles, neither the Council nor the Federation are composed of men of sufficient experience in trade union matters to appreciate the need for a thorough investigation before committing themselves to statements of alleged facts.\n\nIn particular the Council is at the moment somewhat excited by the attention it has received from the I.C.F.T.U. and its leaders are very anxious to stress the importance of their organisation and its international connections.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nGOVERNOR.",
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        "content_text": "Saving.\n\n53508/1/50\n\nFrom the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nTo the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n2 November, 1950.\n\nSaving.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n39\n\n10\n\nYour telegram No. 1272.\n\nFung Keong Rubber factory.\n\nI enclose a copy of a report which has been received by the Trades Union Council from the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council on the circumstances attending the closing of this factory.\n\n2. The report contains some serious allegations, particularly on page 2, which the T.U.C. here are anxious to be in a position to refute since the report has apparently been given a wide circulation in I.C.F.T.U. channels.\n\n3. In the circumstances I would like to be able to make the true facts available to the T.U.C. as soon as possible and would be glad to know whether you have any additional information to that contained in your telegram under reference.\n\nSEC.\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG & KOWLOON TRADES UNION COUNCIL\n\n67, Wellington Street, 1st. fl.\n\nTelephone: 20270 Cable Add. 6217\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDear Brother,\n\n42\n\n951.5\n\nSSEMCHOO HONA SZOVUL\n\n£2 6 JE 100\n\n7th, September 1950.\n\nRE: AN APPEAL FOR MORAL AND MATERIAL SUPPORT TO OUR DISCHARGED WORKERS UNDER UNPRECEDENTED AND RUTHLESS OPPRESSION\n\nIn our recent letters to our international fellow trade unionists, we have emphasized the point that democratic labour movement in this Colony has factually made some considerable progress. However, we would like to add that this progress has evolved for the time being only in the aspect of organizing the local Chinese workers.\n\nAs a matter of fact, lying ahead on the road of our democratic labour movement there are still many difficulties in this Colony; our obstacles come from several quarters: the Communist abetment with workers, derisive contempt and oppressive greed of the general employers, and the intricate impracticability of some of the officially established institutions which have been inaugurated for the protection of the general workers.\n\nAs being easily discerned by any observer, the situation of democratic labour movement in Hong Kong is so delicate and so tender that any activities like legitimate strikes or open demands large and small-scale alike, are liable to be mixed up with Communist demagogism which intrudes opportunely into the scene of troubles in pursuance of its subversive and agitative ends. Inevitably, the consequences will precipitate some deplorable clash between our liberty-loving workers and the Governmental regulations.\n\nUnder the circumstances, for the sake of our ultimate objective of safeguarding our workers from falling into the role of cat's-paw or dupes for the Communist agitation and subversion, and of contributing to peace and order, workers and their representatives under this TUC always try their best to contain themselves in the habit of toleration even to pay the price of self-sacrifice, as far as they are not actually dragged into a state bordering on immediate starvation.\n\nRight after the departure from Hong Kong of the Asia-bound Delegation of the ICFTU, from one of the local leading and influential employers the general workers here have received an unprecedented and unreserved coup de main, pregnant with the motive of retaliation. This lethal blow, for the first time in Hong Kong, lacerates all the protective regulations and agreements for the",
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        "content_text": "(2)\n\nGeneral workers and initiates a striking maliciously high-handed example to expose the latter constantly under easy voluntary oppression of the employers.\n\nWith a view to inviting your sympathetic assistance, we would like to commence our story with the following facts:\n\nIn the course of its two-day investigation tour around workers' associations and clubs and some factories in Hong Kong and the opposite Kowloon, the ICFTU's Delegation made a visit to the Fung Kung Rubber Shoes Factory, the biggest in this Colony, where Mr. Dally and Mr. Krane (delegates) were shockingly astonished by the oral information from many an innocent worker that most workers there had been receiving an average daily wage from sixty cents to one dollar Hong Kong (the lowest only 30 cents), the equivalent of the price of one pack of cigarettes, or two or one apple, in exchange for 12-hour work a day in a horribly sharp contrast to the report from Mr. Charlie Chang, speaking for the employer, that the average wage of that factory was three dollars H.K. as remuneration for daily 8-hour work with half-hour time for rest.\n\nThis contradicting and incongruous reports from both the employer and the workers to the ICFTU's Delegation immediately showed its ill effects the very next day, 24th July, when the employer of that factory, deadly chagrined at the exposure of the factory's unjust and inhuman treatments to the workers and the frankness on the part of the workers in answering questions of the ICFTU's delegates, suddenly announced the discharge of more than one hundred workers in order to replace them with other more obedient and underpaid new workers.\n\nSubsequently, this attempt foundered before the strong opposition and protest of the workers. However, this only heralded the arrival of a bigger disaster, as the employer, being originally desperately averse to the workers' legal organisation inside his factory, was concocting a more complete \"purge\" among his workers who, although had been working hard with the lowest wages in Hong Kong for more than ten or twenty years.\n\nLike a shattering thunderbolt ripping up the quietness of a peaceful night, a notice of unconditional discharge for all the workers in the factory was published all of a sudden at 11:30 P.M. on 8th August, 1950, just two weeks after the visit of the ICFTU's Delegation. The shock loomed like a midnight terror without the least sign of warning, to say nothing of advance notice, threatening the subsistence of the upwards of one thousand and seven hundred workers (female and male) who were narrowly eking out their living with meager wages.\n\nTo perfect this maniacally inhuman and irrational oppression, policemen were seriously and securely posted in the factory the next morning to prevent the entry of any worker. Those working on day shift and being ignorant of the discharge notice the night before were even more stunned.\n\nAlthough the officially established agreement between employer and workers was as authentic as had been formally written and published, and the Colonial Emergency Regulations were stringently in force, both documents placing employers and workers on an equal and reciprocal basis in that any calculated and sudden closure of a factory on the part of an employer is just as illegal.",
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        "content_text": "as any strike on the part of workers, and facts have clearly and patently demonstrated that the law has been giving enough warnings of serious punishment against some prospective strikes in this time of emergency, repeated negotiations in the presence of the Labour Office in the course of this period of nearly a month have still failed to elicit even a little merciful concession from the adamant obduracy of the employer.\n\nAs a matter of fact, in spite of the comprehensiveness and the equitability of the officially established mutual agreement between workers and employer and other official regulations in respect to both sides, facts have, for many times, authentically impressed the general workers in this Colony that they are the only party whose departure from these agreements and Regulations (there hasn't been any hitherto) categorically means heavy punishment while that of the other party, the employer, enjoys impunity.\n\nMay not the subsistence of this group of workers matter much to the profit of the employer; may even the sacrifice of them invite no mercy from those who should be concerned for the livelihood of the workers. However, ill effects are cropping out every minute as the inevitable consequences of this event. And it grieves us to enumerate the following:\n\n(1) Local Communist newspapers are saliently frantic in imputing the closure of this Factory to the fact that the ICFTU's Delegation has abetted its workers to demand exorbitantly for more wages, (virtually no oral or written demand has been made yet) while their other propaganda instruments and agents keep busy in disseminating the rumours that the ICFTU's Delegation has brought ill luck to Hong Kong.\n\n(2) In addition, Communist agitators and instigators have been surreptitiously at work sowing the seed of demagogism and agitation and \"converting\" more workers to their side unctuously and plausibly promising this and that, since of the 1700 workers (approx.) in that factory, about 100 were dupes under the Communist-controlled Rubber Workers' association and seventy percent were attached to the Rubber Shoes Workers' Association of this TUC.\n\n(3) After the complete discharge of this group of pitiful workers, it appears that no concession can be yielded from the employer by way of negotiations before the Government officers, repeated protests, humble supplication, and an appeal to the public for moral support. The loftiness and inaccessibility of the employer still remain untouched and unquestioned by any existing established institution in this Colony. Some leading employers in Hong Kong begin to be sensible of the objective that this complete discharge of workers is nothing but a complete \"purge\" itself after which the employer will re-enlist new and \"obedient\" workers by means of the signing of some special contract to the prejudice of the legal rights of the workers.\n\nThe triumph of the employer of this Fung Kung Rubber Shoes Factory has rapidly exerted sufficient influence to encourage other employers to follow suit. And once again the subsistence of our workers is at the mercy of the capricious will of the employer. To deign to accept or to spurn workers' demands is entirely at his...",
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        "content_text": "(4) \n\ndiscretion. Common official agreement and Labour Regulations are just as good as non-existent.\n\n(4) Two weeks had hardly elapsed when the workers of Wah Hing Button Factory were confronted with a minatory notice from their employer. It conveyed the employer's order to reduce unconditionally the wages and was openly and boldly worded that his factory would follow the example of the measure of complete discharge adopted first by the Fung Kung Rubber Shoe Factory, should his workers say \"No\" to it.\n\nWith their celebrated example of complete discharge adopted first by Fung Kung Rubber Shoes Factory, the manner of most of the general employers is growing arrogantly immovable in their dealings with our workers; the low-margin subsistence of our workers in this Colony is totally placed under the menace of unexpected and ubiquitous massive unemployment, and worst of all, Communist agitation is rampantly canvassing for a chance of infiltration.\n\n(The disastrous effects would have been easily imagined by any observer that what fate else except hunger and destitution, have befallen those poor rubber shoes workers whose daily bitter existence hangs only on meager wages, viz. an average daily payment of 60 cents (some 30 cents) to H.K.$1.00 that only enables the common citizen to buy three or two apples or one pack of cigarettes, as was authentically discovered by Mr. Krane and Mr. Dally, the ICFTU's Delegation to Hong Kong. In the course of this period of about a month, life for them has been more and more fraught with obvious depressing worries and bitter sufferings; hunger has virtually become part of their daily life. It is impossible for them to cope with the exigencies of even a scanty life with just a place to sleep and some clothes to don. No one would have expected some savings of them whose livelihood was scarcely carried on with little wages. Starvation and the tragedy of human life are imminent on these one thousand and seven hundred workers.\n\nWhat this TUC, being constantly badly in lack of operative fund, can do is only to mobilize all the workers' associations to tender material and moral support to these discharged workers to render them tenable, not against the oppression of the employer as the latter has already achieved the triumph with impunity, but against the fatal attack of starvation.\n\nBut what shall this TUC and the general workers do when presently this unfavorable tendency is allowed to prevail with other employers likely to discharge unrestrainedly more and more workers, we dare not visualize how heavy the burden will be on the shoulders of those still in employment but with scanty wages to support the livelihood of those discharged workers still increasing in number.\n\n(b) Naturally, the privation of our liberty-loving and law-abiding bona fide workers is the enjoyment of our enemies, the Communist agents, whose propaganda is desperately depreciating and",
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        "content_text": "(5) disparaging the significance of the arrival of the ICFTU's Delegation in Asia; (as shown in their local papers) the troubles of our workers are providing the Communist agitators an excellent chance for attempting infiltration. Thus in addition to starvation, this TUC in protection of our poor discharged workers, has one more invader out against—the Communist.\n\nto hold\n\nThe closure of this Fung Kung Rubber Shoes Factory and the complete discharge of all its workers, as popularly interpreted by some authoritative commercial circles and the public itself, were intentionally conducted for some favourable business purposes, though less demand for rubber shoes would be one of the contributing factors. We are in no position to come to any conclusion of this kind. Nevertheless, we are sure of the following causes:\n\n(3) The sound and steady growth of the organisation of the Rubber Shoes Workers' Association affiliated to this TUC had aroused both dissatisfaction and jealousy with the employer who had been for thirty years avariciously exploiting his workers of their rightful earnings by the practice of meager wages. The employer's desire of oppressing the workers was promptly culminated by the visit of the ICFTU's Delegation to his Factory. It was extremely to the indignation of the employer that the workers' answering to questions of the ICFTU's Delegates barely but unwittingly belied the shameless falsely-varnished statement of the employer's spokesman in respect to the average wages of the workers there.\n\n(2) To the best of our knowledge, before the announcement of this complete discharge, it was wickedly and shrewdly contrived that a suspension for two months of the factory's operation would be utilized to let famish and impecuniosity humiliate and dampen the co-operative spirit and the combined effort of the workers. Afterwards, the resumption of work for any worker would be left to the disposal of the employer and would necessitate the signing of a prerequisite \"Service Contract\" which agreed to still lower wages (30% less than the last) and more working hours for the employer. Workers' representatives of the Rubber Shoes Workers' Association, like Leung Shing, Ng Ting and so on, would be doubtlessly discharged forever just because they had been elected representatives by their fellow workers.\n\n(3) There have been also another cause. Since the Communist elements, namely Han Chirk Wah and the other ten or so, had much less influence than our democratic workers inside the Factory, they exceptionally chose to side up with the employer ostensibly. It must have been partly through their telltale and instigation that the General Manager, Fung Tse Yi and the Superintendent, Kou Kei Ming, decided to enforce this measure of \"purge\".\n\n曲\n\nDear international friends and comrades, with the constant co-operation and advices from our international trade unionists and",
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        "content_text": "47\n\nFrom the ICFTU, the front of true democratic labour movement in Hong Kong is gathering power and strength and drawing ever-increasing number of members not only from those liberty-loving bona-fide workers but also from those who have already been trapped or forced into the Communist-controlled workers' associations from which more and more members are being detached by the influence of our healthy and sound growth.\n\nNaturally, the expansion of our organisation is bound to be attended by the increase of our obstacles; the Communist impulse of jealousy and hostility to our full fledgling will drive them to intensify their attack on us; the employers' dissatisfaction and opposition to our growing unity will lead to the enhancement of their pressure on us.\n\nFurthermore, we have bitterly experienced that we are not so enjoying the protection of officially established and published regulations and agreements as we should have expected, to overcome our obstacles depends mainly upon the unity among our workers and our co-operation with our international friends.\n\nPresently, in our lonely battle against overwhelming odds, threatening the starvation of our member workers and the offensive of Communist agitators, this UC and our workers' representatives are earnestly and anxiously looking forward to moral and material support from you, because we want to raise the morale of our workers by showing them that the liberty-loving workers in other parts of the world, together with the T.U.C. are on our side and to warn our many oppressors that the front of our democratic labour movement never lacks reinforcement and is not to be holding out alone.\n\nTherefore, for the hopeless privation of our discharged workers, from you we are expecting moral and some material or financial assistance, (no matter how small the value and amount it may be) as we reckon that your help will fully and significantly exemplify our co-operation with international democratic trade unionists, to higher up the morale of our workers in Hong Kong and to symbolize the T.U.C. influence in Hongkong to warn and antagonize our oppressors.\n\nWaiting eagerly for your early and favourable reply,\n\nMr. H. Vincent Tewson, C.B.E., M.C.\n\nGeneral Secretary,\n\nTrade Union Congress,\n\nTransport House,\n\nSmith Square, London S.W.1.\n\nEngland.\n\nFraternally yours,\n\nJIMMY HOI LIVIN\nFUNG HOI CHIU General Secretary",
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        "content_text": "CHINA \n\nMAIL \n\n28.9.50 \n\nLABOUR SITUATION IN HK REPORTED HEALTHY \n\nThe labour situation in Hong Kong remains healthy and nothing is likely to arise in the near future to provoke dissension, a survey of the industrial scene yesterday revealed. Despite the recent closure of an old-established rubber factory and the resultant dismissal of over 1,000 workers, unemployment figures show no indication of soaring beyond the normal ratio for this season. The survey disclosed that this rubber factory's closure was an exception rather than the rule, and was not indicative of a general business depression. No other factory of importance has followed its example, and the local rubber industry as a whole is bearing well in the face of a world-wide increase in the price of natural rubber.\n\nA portion of the dismissed workers of the factory concerned has already found new employment. Personal hardships are being encountered by the remainder, but their union is understood to be making efforts to rehabilitate them as soon as possible.\n\nThe survey showed. Amusement parks are operating at great loss, night-clubs often do not make enough to cover musicians' salaries. Restaurants no longer cater to the huge crowds they did a year ago, and the hotel business — after an era of lucrative intake — has returned to normal operations.\n\nThis is all attributed by the people concerned to the return of refugees from North China, and to the abandonment of the reckless spending spree which featured life in the Colony immediately after liberation.\n\nBecause the entertainment business thrived under abnormal conditions and catered to a clientele made up largely of aliens, the survey showed that its decline does not imply a recession of the local industry as a whole. The mainstay of Hong Kong's commercial health remains unimpaired.\n\nThe conciliatory attitude of the management in this case helped to reduce industrial tension when the closure was announced, and no dispute of importance arose as a result. Negotiations are still proceeding for the full resumption of this factory.\n\nOf labour unrest there is no sign. Government action in deporting troublesome union heads has borne fruit, and agitation is virtually non-existent.\n\nAccording to information from several sources, unemployment is ceasing to exert a profound influence on the labour situation because many worker-refugees from Communist China are returning to their native places.\n\nThousands of them came here last year when the civil war engulfed South China. Many of them found employment locally, but the larger percentage had nothing to do. When it became evident that Hong Kong's absorption had reached saturation point, they started to return. This movement reached momentum recently when Communist money appreciated in terms of foreign currencies and the Jen Min Piao was stabilised.\n\nCotton mills continue to produce shirts and singlets and are seeking new markets in the South Seas and the Commonwealth. The establishment of an Indonesian Consulate here has accelerated the flow of local goods to Java and Sumatra, and this market is being explored as an alternative to China, where restrictions are hampering trade.\n\nMill circles are discussing the decision reported to have been reached by the owners of the Hong Kong Cotton Mills, Limited, to transfer the entire works and staff to the Philippines in view of the uncertainty of Hong Kong's future.\n\nThe Hong Kong Cotton Mills Limited was established three years ago at a site on Castle Peak Road by a Shanghai mill-owning family. Mill hands were brought to the Colony from the North, and the factory itself was run along modern lines. It is air-conditioned throughout.\n\nThe survey disclosed that negotiations have been going on for some time to transfer the entire factory to Manila, but difficulties have arisen over the question of Filipino visas for the 1,000-odd mill hands now employed.\n\nIn the aluminium flask industry, business is progressing satisfactorily, and one such factory is reported to be making a substantial turnover in selling such flasks in England. At the recent British Industries Fair, orders were contracted for a large supply of these Hong Kong flasks.\n\nBritish buyers found them on a par with the English variety, although the cost of the local brand was reduced by half. In this connection, factory owners explained that the quality of their product could hardly be any different from English flasks because identical materials and machinery are used here.\n\nMuch optimism prevails. The survey showed that in no line of industry has expansion taken place recently, but conversely, cases of contraction have been rare. The tendency of Hong Kong industry as a whole is to pursue a policy of containment — which means that unless a world crisis develops, the present status quo will be indefinitely maintained.\n\nIn management circles, a large measure of optimism continues to prevail, but business heads invariably agree that boom-conditions have largely vanished and will not return for some time. The capitalists are sitting on their assets, and investment on a large scale will not ensue while the Chinese political situation remains fluid.\n\nCertain businesses are beginning to suffer, but these as a rule have nothing to do with industry as such.\n\nIn the real estate trade, for instance, a definite recession has set in. Large blocks of flats along King's Road remain vacant because at last supply exceeds demand in the matter of housing. Key money as a flourishing racket is largely a thing of the past; high rentals are also toppling, and circles in the know are freely predicting that before long rentals in all areas will return to pre-war levels plus the inflationary percentage now regarded as normal.\n\nIn the entertainment world, business is definitely bad, the survey showed.",
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        "content_text": "INWARD TELEGRAM\n\nTO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES\n\nCOPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nFROM HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)\n\nD. 20th November, 1950. R. 20th\n\n18 08.55 hrs.\n\n49 6\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\nNo. 1272.\n\nConfidential.\n\nYour confidential telegram No. 1693.\n\nParliamentary Question: Fung Keong Rubber Factory.\n\nThis factory employing 1,200 workers closed on 8th August 1950. Reasons for closure were:-\n\n(a) High cost of rubber.\n\n(b) Underselling by U.K. competitors resulting in loss of U.K. market which had taken 90% of the output.\n\n2. This is one of the latest symptoms of a general shrinkage in the Hong Kong rubber industry. Number employed in this industry fell from 5,900 in the first quarter to 3,200 in the third quarter.\n\n3. Ever since the factory closed down discussions have been held with the management and the workers' two unions regarding possibility of resuming operation but, until raw material again becomes available at an economic price, there is little prospect of this. Some of the workers have obtained other employment.\n\n4. You will appreciate that there is a gross surplus of unskilled and semi-skilled labour at present, due to influx of immigrants and that some of the Fung Keong workers are recent arrivals.\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "C.O.\n\nTo-\n\nDraft\n\n*\n\nSAVINGRAM-\n\nMr.\n\nMr..\n\nTELEGRAM/*\n\n* The word Priority may be entered here, if necessary.\n\nGoo: itong Kany\n\nPandough / abuce\n\nMr.....\n\nMr..\n\nRepeated to:-\n\nSir\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nS. of S.\n\nPriority\n\nNi\n\nReply urgently required.\n\nImportant.\n\nImmediate.\n\nMost Immediate\n\nTo be transmitted :-\n\n\"In-Clear\n\nCode\n\n-Cypher\n\nFile No.\n\n53508/1/50\n\nSent.\n\nCodedr\n\n12152 hours\n\n15/11/51\n\nBrid\n\nNo. 1693\n\nRestricted\n\nConfidential.\n\nSecret.\n\nTop Secret and Personal.\n\nFollowing\n\nGovernor Hong Kong\n\nfor\n\nreply\n\nquestion is in Parlament\n\non\n\n22nd\n\n(repeat 22nd) November. Begins\n\nDo not copy.\n\nDistribution:—\n\nRECEIVED\n\n15 NOV 060\n\nNOT COPIED\n\n16\n\nank whether I am aware of the hardship caused to thousand employees of the Hong Keong rubber factory, Hong Kong, by the recent stoppage of work at this factory; whether work has now been resumed; and what steps have been taken to secure employment for these workers either in their factory or elsewhere.. Ends\n\n2. Grateful for material for reply by midday 20th (repeat 20th) November,\n\nFurther action:—\n\nRecirc\n\na.m.\n\n20/11/50\n\nWt. 15855/746 5M 6-48 Wa. & Co. 51/3 Wt. 29377/790 50M 11-48 Wa. & Co. 51/3",
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        "content_text": "• 12255/17 Saving.\n\n53565\n\nFrom the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nTo the Officer Administering the Government of HONG KONG.\n\nDate\n\nNo\n\nA May, 1950.\n\n+44 Saving.\n\n1950.\n\nConfidential.\n\n513\n\nYour Telegram No. 395 of the 17th April,\n\nWorkmen's Compensation.\n\nFollowing is an extract from the Official Report of 19th April, 1950:-\n\nHONG KONG\n\nWorkmen's Compensation\n\nMR. WYATT asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the present position in Hong Kong with regard to workmen's compensation; when the ordinance in connection with it will be promulgated; and what consultations on the subject have taken place with the local trade unions.\n\nMR. COOK: A draft Workmen's Compensation Bill is at present being examined by the Labour Advisory Board and it is hoped that the Bill will be introduced into the Legislative Council before the end of this year. The vice-chairman and past chairman respectively of the two largest local trade unions are members of the Labour Advisory Board.\n\nMR. WYATT: Will my hon. Friend make quite certain that this Bill is introduced speedily because this matter was first discussed before the war.",
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        "content_text": "53508/1/50\n\nC.R.E.3872/50\n\nColonial Office,\n\nSanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street,\n\nLondon S.W.1.\n\n17th May, 1950\n\nDear Miss Dennehy,\n\nSince receiving your letter of the 17th April about labour conditions in the rubber footwear industry in Hong Kong we have had a detailed search and have succeeded in finding some information which I trust will sufficiently answer your questions (a), (b), (c) and (d) without our having to trouble the Governor on the matter.\n\nWith regard to your question (a), it is somewhat difficult to decide whether an industry is \"sweated\" or not unless one has a fairly accurate definition of what the term means; certainly it would have widely different meanings in Hong Kong and, for example, this country. I take it that the mere fact that wage rates are lower in Hong Kong than in this country would not be regarded as evidence of sweating. Assuming that the term means a trade or industry or a branch of any trade or industry where the rate of wages prevailing is exceptionally low as compared with that in other employments and on which no person can reasonably be expected to subsist, we can I think say that the rubber footwear industry in Hong Kong is not sweated. In this connection I enclose for your information a table showing wage rates in the industry for the year ended 31.3.49 (conditions have not changed a great deal since then) and also a\n\nMISS H.W. DENNEHY\n\n/Parliamentary",
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        "content_text": "55\n\nParliamentary Question and Answer of last November. If you compare the figures given in the Parliamentary Answer, which are more or less average figures applying to industry generally, with those for the rubber footwear industry you will see that though wages tend to be lower in the rubber footwear industry there is no serious discrepancy. Moreover, if the minimum estimated monthly wages for unskilled female piece-rate workers are compared with the minimum daily wages for these workers it will be seen that some at least of the workers do not work the full standard month and this would suggest that the full monthly wages would certainly be sufficient for subsistence.\n\nAs to your question (b), although there are about 150 workers' unions in Hong Kong we have no record of any operating in the rubber footwear industry; this is borne out by the comments in the remarks column of the enclosed table.\n\nOn question (c), I think the comparison is clear enough from the Parliamentary Answer. If the percentage increase of wage rates since before the war is compared with the rise in the cost of living index (which is comparatively speaking reliable) it will be seen that in general wages have gone up by more than the cost of living since pre-war and that as a result real wages have increased.\n\nAs to your question (d), we can certainly say that wages generally in Hong Kong (and as pointed out above the rubber footwear industry does not differ very considerably from the general standard) are high by Far East standards; in fact they are probably higher than in many parts of Europe.",
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        "content_text": "58\n\nMR. WYATT\n\nFOR WEDNESDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER, 1949\n\nTo ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, what was the average wage of a workman, over the age of 21 years, in Hong Kong in August, 1938, in August, 1946, and in August, 1949, respectively; and how far increases in wage rates have kept up with increases in the cost of living.\n\nANSWER\n\nMR. REES-WILLIAMS: As there are a number of figures in the reply I will with the Hon. Member's permission circulate it in the official Report.\n\nThe following is the reply:-\n\nThe daily wage rates for the four main categories of workers varied at the times in question between the approximate limits shown in the following table. (£1 Hong Kong = 1/3d. Sterling).\n\n  \n    \n    August, 1938\n    August, 1946\n    August, 1949\n  \n  \n    Skilled Tradesmen\n    75 cents\n    $1.40\n    $6.20 - $8\n  \n  \n    Skilled Workers\n    70 cents\n    $4.50\n    $5\n  \n  \n    Ordinary Workers\n    60 cents\n    $4.20\n    $5.60 - $7.20\n  \n  \n    Manual Workers\n    40 cents\n    $3.20\n    $3.55 - $4.05\n  \n\nThe General retail price index, taking 1939 prices as 100, was 586 for the quarter ending September, 1949. Figures for 1946 are not available.\n\nIt will be seen that, except for some of the highest paid workers, wage rates have risen by a higher percentage than the cost of living as represented by the general retail price index.",
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        "content_text": "If you can reasonably be expected to subsist on the wages earned. On this basis, we can, I think, say that the rubber footwear industry in Hong Kong is not sweated. In this connection, I enclose for your information a table showing wage rates in the industry for the year ended 31/3/49 (conditions have not changed a great deal since then) and also a Parliamentary Question and Answer of last November.\n\nIf you compare the figures given in the Parliamentary Answer, which are more or less average figures applying to industry generally, with those for the rubber footwear industry, you will see that though wages tend to be lower in the rubber footwear industry, there is no violent discrepancy. A further point, which is, I think, relevant, particularly in connection with that part of the definition of a sweated industry relating to whether a person can reasonably be expected to subsist on the wages, is apparent.\n\nMoreover, if the minimum estimated monthly wages for unskilled female piece-rate workers are compared with the minimum daily wages for these workers, it can be seen that some, at least, of the workers do not work the full standard month, and this would suggest that the full monthly wages would certainly be sufficient for subsistence.\n\nAs to your question (b), although there are about 150 workers' unions in Hong Kong, we have no record of any operating in the rubber footwear industry; this is borne out by the comments in the remarks column of the enclosed table.\n\nOn your question (c), I think the comparison is...",
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        "content_text": "4. Gordon Taylor\n\nMr. Emanuel.\n\n8/7. refd. 14.12.502\n\nI discussed this with Mr. Grimwood at the Hong Kong Office to-day.\n\nI gather that the importations of Hong Kong rubber footwear have fallen off considerably, partly because of the mild winter last year, and the consequent overflow of stocks to this winter. Apart from that, the figure of five million pairs, said to have been shipped to the United Kingdom in the first six months of this year, is thought to be an exaggeration.\n\nDealing with the points in paragraph 4 of the record as they occur, the position is as follows:-\n\n(a) The Hong Kong factory, which closed recently, was forced to do so, partly because the proprietor had been gambling in rubber and had come unstuck. Provided the Hong Kong manufacturers are able to retain their market in the United Kingdom, there is no reason to suppose that other factories will have to close;\n\n(b) The proposed diversion of these exports to other parts of the Commonwealth is not a matter which can be decided by Government action. India and the other countries of the Commonwealth can please themselves whether or not they import Hong Kong footwear, and there is no reason to suppose that the Hong Kong manufacturers have not already sounded the Commonwealth market;\n\n(c) B.S.I. standards are already being employed in Hong Kong in a number of industries. They have not yet been applied to the rubber footwear industry, but I was assured that the allegation that the Hong Kong products are inferior to those of the United Kingdom is not altogether true. I was shown a pair of rubber boots for children which had been produced by a Hong Kong firm alongside a similar article which had been produced here for export to Hong Kong. It was quite obvious, even to the uninitiated, that the Hong Kong article was very much better in finish and design;\n\n(d) There is no truth in the suggestion that H.M. Customs have favoured imports from Hong Kong. As you may have heard, the import of Hong Kong shirts has been held up very badly, owing to the necessity of checking the Empire content for Customs purposes. The same applies to rubber footwear. In spite of the hold-up and the embarrassment to importers who have had to deposit the whole price of the goods beforehand, the Customs have not relaxed their standards and have, indeed, engaged extra staff to enable them to carry out the investigation as quickly as possible.\n\n(e) There is, of course, a trading season, so far as the retail trade is concerned. The winter is naturally the time when people buy wellington boots and overshoes, but there is also the summer trade in beach shoes and an all the year round sale of ordinary canvas gym shoes.\n\nMr. Grimwood had not very much to say about the possibility of the British and Hong Kong manufacturers being able to get together. The opinion of those merchants who handle Hong Kong imports of these goods is that the United Kingdom industry could not by itself satisfy the demand. I imagine that the kind of agreement which the United Kingdom people would favour would be one which sought to cut down the quantity of",
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        "content_text": "Col.\n\nGoods.\n\nMarket footwear.\n\nRuben\n\nх\n\n1. By Trade (Morris)\n\nMoter of Meeting.\n\n3.\n\n24-1.50\n\n!\n\nThe Board of Trade have the day not late very drafted notes of in meeting hull early but November to discuss the importation of rubber footwear from Hong Kong\n\nWe make on\n\nThey ask whether this draft.\n\nA you have any comments\n\nthe only C... representative e.o. presents at the meeting!\n\napers Ume referring this draft to dates, you may\n\nBut I inquire at this late not feel inclined to make any comments\n\n1. H. Hay Fo 5.608 21-16\n\nпо Commenti Jee..\n\nI have Insidebrinan wire Conto LAK.\n\nما Mr. Side bother You Cure to may nee 1.\n\n1. H. Hay 5.608. 2015/0\n\n2 To Sir A Grantham Wye of mins. 27-1.50",
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        "content_text": "This pour Sudak made 4 Hong Kong imports. It is hardly likely that the Hong Kong people would fall in with such an agreement. Rubber is not the only commodity used in this footwear; there is a good deal of canvas used for linings and uppers. I believe that all this canvas is imported into Hong Kong from this country. Furthermore, on the general trade point, the United Kingdom still enjoys a favourable trade balance with Hong Kong.\n\nI do not know how much of this you wish to put in your reply to Mr. Gordon Taylor, but I think it should be made plain to him that we are not disposed to countenance any attempt to supplant Hong Kong in the United Kingdom market for these goods.\n\nThere is also the much more important fact that HK is likely to suffer severely from the U.S. embargo trade with China and cannot stand further blows without deep distress. In present political circumstances, the idea of Hong Kong as a distressed area is surely not to be entertained.\n\nH.K.P.\n\nas a\n\nMavillio\n\n20/12/50\n\nHave A.Degt any comments pl.\n\nts\n\n21/12\n\n452\n\nPl. attach our pps. on (a) rubber (including the PQ referred to at X of (1)) (b) shirts & recire.\n\nJ.J. Anderson.\n\n21/xii\n\nPps herewith (53508/1/50 53502/1/52. 54494/A/50)\n\nKD clanh\n\n29/12",
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        "content_text": "The latest information we have had for H.K. is on 53508/1/1Q1 helms & park 2 of HK til 1272 shows that the number of persons employed in the rubber industry fall from 5,900 in the first quarter to 3,200 in the third quarter. Of the facts in that telegram it would appear that the H.K. traders are unlikely to be able to compete successfully in the U.K. markets unless (a) the price of rubber comes down or (b) the U.K. manufacturers increase their prices.\n\nOn the other part, I agree with the Welles' minute of 20/12. I feel sure the H.K. traders have already explored the possibility of alternative markets.\n\nI also fully support Wille's last paragraph. The U.S.A. notional embargo on goods & materials to H.K. & Chinese retaliation in goods materially to the U.S.A. is bound to have adverse effects on H.K. industry & trade. Attempts to keep H.K. out of the U.K. markets cannot but have further damaging effects on H.K. morale as the South China Morning Post of 11.12.50 states \"H.K.'s fate is to be misunderstood & misrepresented. & prosperity is painted as profligate receiving only, actively undermining, in adversity, just deserts. We are convicted unheard of all manner of sharp practices.\"\n\nThere is another aspect about which I am not very clear. When dealing with the P.Q. I was informed that in the U.K. rubber shoes it was only a secondary industry i.e. the same manufacturers had other major interests e.g. the manufacture of tyres. The same is not the case in H.K. where the loss of markets will probably close the whole factory.",
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        "content_text": "Page 6\n\nI do not think the U.K. manufacturers have made out a convincing case against H.K. & politically this is certainly not the time to make conditions in H.K. any more unsettled than they are already due entirely to factors beyond H.K.'s control. H.K. has, at the U.K.'s request, already imposed considerable restrictions on her trade with China & will look to the U.K. for help to find alternative markets & will certainly not expect the U.K. to interfere with a legitimate trade with the U.K.\n\n4/1\n\nGenerally Britain ... The Colony. Clearly in reply to my letter, which was specifically asked for by the Secretary of State, emphasising the difficulties of Hong Kong industry and its dependence on trade.\n\nThe developments here may have been misrepresented to the Board of Trade, inasmuch as they are not matters that can be spoken about with a single voice. Perhaps the matter should be taken up through the SET Dept or SEA Dept. The official in question is seen by high authority to be sensitive to the industry's sensitivities.\n\nI don't quite understand why this is a problem. Em-gen. MPs ...",
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        "content_text": "relating to secondary industries are properly registered \"Jersey, button\n\n1\n\nx\n\nhe\n\nwill be considered later.\n\n7\n\nAs\n\nbusiness\n\n3/1 time\n\n2# 16. Gordon Taylor B/T.\n\nMr. Willis\n\n4.1. 51.\n\nRefer to your ref.\n\nF.A. (4)\n\nMr. Watson\n\n$619A 4/1\n\nMr. Hall\n\nwith ref. to Mr. Emanuel's minute above. I feel that this should be registered Geographical if you agree, perhaps you will send it to your registering office for charge to be effected.\n\nH452\n\nI think instructions re registration are given in\n\nLi/1\n\nthe copy of the END.\n\nWake\n\nand that items (1)(4)(2) of 15th Nov 1949. I agree with a\n\nAgreed that\n\nPut by\n\nminutes be implemented at once.\n\nKo. Clark\n\n26/1/51",
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        "content_text": "Extract UK. Jvasic Commissioned (December 19, 1950) agent 8 2.1.51 3 Im Willis In Hall To see (3) which I have had registered here for record purposes. The Funny Keory factory closed in August which was the last one. Ly referred to in questions A. Jaridang 15/2/51 Pably wall 14/2 Face elle Laggen We spoke. 5% aft to the Remmers by with Wildwards 23/2 You will wish to peruse reference P.5. of the circulated Bulletin J to TCFTO to Sto Kong. We went to a trouble during our visit to acquaint the King Keong Rubber Factory, Hong Kong's make-up position (see (12) on the 'Toppss.) TOP. letter as drafted and suggest Ae D.O. in draft.\n\n2012. Wall 28/h \n\nPage \n\nMr. Fogger is on leave. I have therefore signed the letter to Mr. Kemias.\n\nBarschallen",
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        "content_text": "H.B. Kemmin T.U.C.\n\n5/3/51\n\n5\n\nExtract\n\nFor Eastern Economic Review \"8/2/81\n\nIn Smashman may be interested to see (5).\n\nThen put by.\n\nРайскат\n\n7/3/51.\n\nany time.\n\nThank you.\n\nbol 3 at top\n\nshows or further instalment of\n\nthe Fring Keong story that can be put to Mrs. Kemmir of racemany ot\n\nw:\n\n6\n\nH.B. Kemmis TUC\n\nof (4)\n\n9/3/51\n\nPut by\n\nSmallman\n\n14/3 at once.\n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "Telegraphic Address: \n\nTRADUNIC, SOWEST, LONDON.\n\n106\n\nTelephone\n\nVICTORIA\n\nTRADES UNION CONGRESS\n\nGENERAL SECRETARY\n\nH. VINCENT TEWSON, C.B.E. M.C.\n\nTO WHOM ALL COMMUNICATIONS\n\nSHOULD BE ADDRESSED\n\n9020.\n\nDEPT.\n\nOUR REF.\n\nYOUR REF..\n\nColonial\n\nBE/CH/813\n\nTRANSPORT HOUSE, SMITH SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.1.\n\nMr. B.G. Smallman, Colonial Office, Church House,\n\nGreat Smith Street, S.W.1.\n\nDear Mr. Smallman,\n\n9th March, 1951.\n\nFung Keong Rubber Factory, Hong Kong\n\n(4) I have had your letter of the 5th March and\n\nhave also noted the paragraph in the I.C.F.T.U. Information Bulletin of 31st January, 1951.\n\nAs you say, Mr. Foggon wrote to us at length in January explaining the real causes of the closure of this rubber factory. I find that the information given in that letter was forwarded from here at full length to the I.C.F.T.U. on the 26th January.\n\nConsidering the dates, however, it seems possible that the editorial staff of the Bulletin might not have seen this information in time for\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11\n\n2\n\n1961 H",
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        "content_text": "FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW\n\nRUBBER FACTORIES OF HONGKONG\n\nThe rising tempo of war preparations in various parts of the world is having its repercussions on Hongkong. Not only is the Colony's position as an entrepot threatened, but its newly won role as an expanding industrial centre is jeopardised. The increasing international political tension and the resultant export control imposed by a lengthening list of countries may cut off most of Hongkong's interport trade and, furthermore, stifle its flourishing industries.\n\nIn industrial circles, a sense of uncertainty and insecurity is in evidence regarding the future, for Hongkong is not a self-sufficient entity and does not only have no markets of its own for its wide range of products, but also does not produce any of the raw materials required to feed its many industries. Apart from a minimum for local consumption, all the goods produced have to be exported overseas, while all raw materials have to come from foreign countries. With nations in all parts of the world clamping down on the importation of non-military goods, in which the factories of Hongkong specialise, and imposing drastic restrictions on the export of supplies of military value, there can be little doubt that trying days are ahead for the manufacturing circles of Hongkong.\n\nOwing to falling market demand on account of high prices, and increasing hardships in procuring raw materials, difficulties facing the local industries are now becoming general. The shrinking market and excessive cost of production have compelled more and more factories to curtail productive activities or to temporarily suspend operations. As most of the manufacturing concerns still have varying amounts of stocks of raw materials laid up and the local market is capable of meeting immediate requirements, an industrial crisis is not foreseen in the near future. The next three to six months, however, will be a decisive period, and if no solution could be found in ensuring market demand and raw material supply, a serious situation could hardly be avoidable. Efforts are at present being exerted in both official and private quarters to save Hongkong from the fate of a \"quarantined\" city, and it is generally hoped that these efforts will at least meet with a certain measure of success.\n\nOf the different industries of Hongkong, one of the most heavily affected by the current belligerent temper of the world is the manufacturing of rubber products. Difficulties have been mounting steadily since the outbreak of the Korean war as a result of the sharp rise in the price of crude rubber. The prohibitive cost of rubber and reduced overseas demand have compelled the factories to generally slow down their activities or to suspend work completely.\n\nThe rubber manufacturing industry of Hongkong has a history of over 30 years and plays a major role in the industrial life of the Colony, being second in scope and importance only to the post-war textile industry. In 1949, the exports of rubber footwear, the chief products of the industry, were valued at $13,001,409, occupying 18.2 percent of the total exports and next only to those of textiles, which claimed 23.8 percent of the total.\n\nThe majority of the locally-produced rubber footwear was exported to the United Kingdom and British possessions in all parts of the world. Before the change of government in China, there was also an active and dependable market in the South China coastal area, and, further, large orders were often placed with the local manufacturers by the Chinese army authorities.\n\nUntil recently, the United Kingdom was one of the best customers of the rubber footwear produced in Hongkong. Owing to the heavy jump in rubber prices following the outbreak of the Korean conflict, demand from this direction has fallen off considerably. Local manufacturing circles, however, are not too concerned with the heavy drop in business and regard the present void as only natural. It is explained that with rubber prices having soared so steeply, neither producers nor merchants are certain of the future and prefer not to make any unnecessary commitments until the situation has cleared up and the rubber market has become more stabilised.\n\nThe price of crude rubber, which now stands at about $500 per picul, has soared 30 percent or more from the level prevailing in the first half of this year. On the other hand, the market prices of finished products have increased by only 20 to 50 percent. This is one of the chief reasons why operations under the present conditions are so difficult and why so many producers, unable to meet the cost of production, are left with no choice except to wait for a more opportune time to resume normal production when either the price of rubber has declined or the prices of rubber goods have caught up with the abnormal rise of the raw material. At present, no signs of either are in sight.\n\nThe first indication of serious trouble being encountered by the industry came last August 9, when the Fung Keong Rubber Mfg. Ltd., one of the largest and best-known in the business, suddenly announced suspension of work, throwing more than 1,700 workers out of employment. Explanations given by the factory management for the decision were that the dislocation of the prices of raw and finished products had caused serious losses to the company, and that to prevent further losses, the firm was compelled to lay up temporarily. After nearly five months of suspension, this manufactory is now reported to have started preparations to resume operation early next January. This should indicate a change for the better in the general situation and should create a greater degree of confidence among the industry.\n\nMeanwhile, another enterprise, the United Rubber Works Co., Ltd., with a factory located in Hing Wah Street, Castle Peak Road, Kowloon, and producing rubber shoes and boots, bicycle tubes, and rubber bands and balls, announced liquidation on December 15 after having ceased operating for about half a year. This closure has not created any pessimistic feelings in the trade as it is expressly pointed out that the liquidation is voluntary and has not been caused by business losses.\n\nLooking at the situation as a whole, the present trouble of the industry lies in the excessive cost of crude rubber. Factories with raw rubber stocks were reported some time ago to be disposing of such stocks in the market, as by so doing they were able to realise greater returns than from continuing production. It is quite plain that as long as the present international tension continues and the world persists in scrambling for supplies to build up stockpiles for military purposes, the price of rubber will be kept at a high level and civilian consumers will have little chance of obtaining the material at a low cost.\n\nThere are at present 43 registered rubber factories in Hongkong. Of this number, only six are established on a comparatively large scale and each employs more than 200 workers. Approximately 75 percent of these plants produce rubber footwear, including rubber shoes, boots, sandals, slippers, soles, and heels. Many of these also turn out, on the side, such products as rubber toys, bicycle tubes, ball bladders, bands, and balls. The larger factories produce from 200,000 to 450,000 pairs of rubber shoes a month, while the smaller ones have a monthly output of 30,000 to 60,000 pairs.\n\nA total of 17 out of the 43 factories produce rubber toys, either exclusively or in conjunction with other rubber goods. Rubber toys are a comparatively new introduction in Hongkong, and because of their novelty, they are finding a relatively good market today. In addition to Hongkong itself, orders for these toys are received chiefly from Africa and South America. These toys comprise a fairly large variety, and those which are having the widest reception are toy balloons and inflatable animals. Good demand for them from overseas countries is enabling the makers to carry on production satisfactorily.",
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        "content_text": "53508/1/51\n\n13\n\n4\n\nThe Church House,\n\nGreat Smith Street,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\n5 March, 1951\n\nDear\n\nKeminu\n\nI have been looking at the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Bulletin No. 19 of the 31st January, 1951, and have noticed that there is a reference on Page 5, to a trade dispute in the Fung Keong Rubber Shoes Factory in Hong Kong.\n\nYogga wrote to Mr. Flood at length on this subject on the 22nd January and you will see from this letter that the closing down of this factory was caused neither by a strike nor a lock out but by purely economic factors connected with the price of rubber. I wonder whether you have yet been able to acquaint the I.C.F.T.U. of the circumstances of this case,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nBYS.\n\nH. D. Kemmis, Esq.",
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        "content_text": "97087/17\n\nExtract from despatch from United Kingdom Trade Commissioner (R/171/201/49) dated 2nd January, 1951\n\n16\n\n3\n\n3. Hong Kong Rubber Factory Closes down.\n\nThe United Rubber Manufactory announced its voluntary winding-up towards the end of the month. This undertaking, which is of fair size, has attributed its closure to the soaring price of rubber.\n\nThis is the second rubber manufactory in the Colony to close during the past five months; the Fung Keung Rubber Manufactory which suspended operations on the 9th August, 1950 is, however, understood to be re-opening early in the new year.",
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        "content_text": "97261/17/1/50\n\nColonial Office,\n\n17\n\nSanctuary Buildings,\n\nGreat Smith Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n4 January, 1951.\n\n2\n\nDear Taylor,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of the 16th December, enclosing a report of a meeting with the British Rubber Footwear Manufacturers' Association about the importation of rubber footwear into the United Kingdom from Hong Kong.\n\nWith regard to the points mentioned in paragraph 4 of the Report, our comments are as follows:-\n\n(a) The Hong Kong factory, which was recently closed down, was forced to do so for reasons particular to that concern. Provided the Hong Kong manufacturers are able to retain their market in the United Kingdom, there is no reason to suppose that other factories will have to close.\n\n(b) The diversion of Hong Kong exports to other parts of the Commonwealth is not a matter which can be decided by H.M.G. in the United Kingdom. India and the other countries of the Commonwealth can please themselves whether or not they import Hong Kong footwear, and there is no reason to suppose that the Hong Kong manufacturers are not aware of the possibilities of the Commonwealth market. India herself manufactures rubber footwear in a big way.\n\n(c) B.S.I. standards are already being employed in Hong Kong in a number of industries. They have not yet been applied to the rubber footwear industry, but there is some doubt about the allegation that the Hong Kong products are inferior to those of the United Kingdom. A pair of children's rubber\n\nH. Gordon Taylor, Esq.,\n\nBoard of Trade.\n\n/boots",
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        "content_text": "I need not also point out that Hong Kong is a large importer of goods from the U.S. and U.K. Apart from this, there are the consequences of taking (the gravity, in present political conditions, any steps likely to cause unemployment and distress in Hong Kong, would be very grave,) especially having regard to the serious effects on Hong Kong's economy which the U.S. embargo on trade with China and Chinese retaliation are bound to have.\n\nIn these circumstances I should be obliged if we could be kept in touch with any developments or proposals the Board of Trade may receive before these proposals are discussed with United Kingdom manufacturers in order that H.M.G. can speak with a single voice on this delicate subject.\n\nYours sincerely,",
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        "content_text": "Telegraphic Address: Advantage, Parl, London.\n\nBoard of Trade\n\nCommercial Relations and Exports Department\n\nI.C. House, Millbank, London, S.W.1\n\nTel. Whitehall 5140 Ext.\n\nCRE 17199/49 Your Ref.\n\n16th December, 1950\n\nDear Emanuel,\n\nI enclose a copy of a report of a meeting between the President and the British Rubber Footwear Manufacturers' Association about the importation of Rubber footwear into the United Kingdom from Hong Kong.\n\nI shall be grateful if you could look into the points mentioned in paragraph 4 of the report (points (a) and (b) in particular) and let me have your comments as soon as possible.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nGordon Taylor.\n\nA. Emanuel, Esq.,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nSanctuary Buildings,\n\nGreat Smith Street,\n\nS.W.1.",
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        "content_text": "24\n\nX\n\nRECORD OF A MEETING BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND A DEPUTATION FROM THE BRITISH RUBBER FOOTWEAR MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION\n\nThe President accompanied by Mr. Hewitt and Miss Dennehy saw a deputation from the British Rubber Footwear Manufacturers' Association on 28th November.\n\n2. The deputation explained that imports of rubber footwear from Hong Kong were causing their industry considerable concern. Competition from low-cost areas was a perennial problem for their industry; acute competition from Japan had led to the rubber footwear industry being the first case to be examined by I.D.A.C. in 1933 but after steps had been taken to deal to some extent with Japanese competition imports from Hong Kong had taken their place. If this acute competition had continued after 1939 the industry would have been unable to meet the demands placed upon it for essential military stores. After the interruption of the war years competition from Hong Kong had already re-assumed menacing proportions. Shipments of rubber footwear from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom had reached an annual rate of five million pairs in the first six months of 1950, and this amounted to 20% of United Kingdom production. These shipments of footwear consisted exclusively of sizes which were too small to incur Purchase Tax and were of uniformly low quality, whereas all members of the Association had undertaken voluntarily to abide by B.S.I. specifications which they themselves had assisted in preparing. The deputation made it clear that they did not suggest that those imports should be prohibited but they did put forward the suggestion that the Government should limit them by quota. The deputation proposed that the President should set up a sub-committee consisting of two members of the industry, two Trade Union members and two Board of Trade officials to consider the problem of imports of rubber footwear from Hong Kong and to report their findings to the President.\n\n3. In reply the President explained that the problem was not, of course, confined to rubber footwear, but was a general one in relation to imports of many kinds from low-cost producers; he quoted the recent example of Hong Kong shirts. Current international commitments made it virtually impossible for us to impose import restrictions for other than balance of payments reasons, and no such reasons existed in the case of Hong Kong. As the industry was aware, it had never been possible to impose quantitative restrictions on Commonwealth products of this kind before the war. The imposition of the other possible form of protection, i.e. tariffs on Commonwealth goods, would clearly be out of the question in view of our Imperial Preference undertakings. He was, in addition, uncertain from the figures so far this year whether the marked fall in imports of rubber footwear from Hong Kong during the last three or four months was a permanent, seasonal, or exceptional trend. The figures for the first half of this year were, he suggested, inflated considerably by the rush to import after the issue of an O.G.L. He had asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies to enquire into the reasons for the closing down of a rubber footwear factory in Hong Kong and he had not yet received a reply; and he drew the attention of the Deputation to the Reply given by the Secretary of State to a Question on this subject (Hansard 22/11/50 Col. 337). The President suggested, therefore, that it might be wise to make sure of some of those additional facts before coming to a decision on a matter which was clearly of very considerable difficulty. From the political point of view the deputation\n\n-1-",
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        "content_text": "25\n\nAction C.R.E.\n\nAction C.R.E.\n\nwould be aware that action taken by the United Kingdom to restrict imports from Hong Kong in the present unsettled conditions in the Far East, might be very damaging to our interests.\n\n4.\n\nAction I.M.20 in consultation with I.M.1B and I.M.1C\n\nAction I.M.1B\n\nAction C.R.E.\n\n5.\n\nAction I.M.2C in consultation with I.M.1A, I.M.1B and C.R.E.\n\nAfter some discussion it was agreed\n\n(a) that the Board of Trade would, in conjunction with the Colonial Office, go further into the question whether the recent fall in imports of rubber footwear from Hong Kong was likely to be temporary, whether the rubber footwear factory which had recently closed down at Hong Kong was likely to be followed by others, and whether the present high price of rubber had made it more profitable, as had been suggested, for Hong Kong manufacturers to sell their stocks rather than to continue in business.\n\n(b) that the possibility of diverting these cheap low quality exports from Hong Kong to other parts of the Commonwealth (e.g. India) should be examined.\n\n(c) that the possibility of subjecting footwear sold in this country to minimum standards (e.g. B.S.I. specifications) should be examined.\n\n(a) that the Board of Trade would take up with H.M. Customs, both the \"off the record\" allegation made by the deputation that H.M. Customs had waived for imports of rubber footwear from Hong Kong the necessity of producing evidence of qualification under the Imperial Preference Rules, and the fact that there was no official of H.M. Customs present in Hong Kong.\n\n(c) that the trade would call for a report on the seasonal character or otherwise of the rubber footwear industry in Hong Kong from their local representative there. The Board of Trade would instruct their Trade Commissioner to give all possible assistance in this enquiry.\n\nAfter the deputation had left it was agreed\n\n(a) that the possibility of an agreement between the British Rubber Footwear Manufacturers and Distributors on the one hand and the Hong Kong manufacturers on the other (on the lines of the prewar trade-to-trade agreements with Japan) should be examined departmentally. The President considered that we might put the suggestion to the deputation in due course while, of course, making it clear to them that any such agreement would have to be on an unofficial basis.",
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        "content_text": "4\n\n-\n\n1.\n\n2.\n\nSerial No.\n\n1. (a)\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\n5.\n\n6.\n\n11\n\n11\n\n11\n\n#1\n\n7.\n\n11\n\n8.\n\n11\n\nBooks\n\nChina in a series of views dated July 1843. Drawn by Thomas Allom with descriptions by the Rev G.N. Wright.\n\nFour volumes in two containing 128 steel engravings.\n\nThe Chinese War published 1844 By J OUCHTERLONY. Containing 47 illustrations on wood and six on stone including No. 9 of the present list of Hong Kong prints.\n\nPRINTS of MACAO: CANTON: etc\n\nWHAMPOA in CHINA:\n\nTitle and description\n\ncoloured aquatint painted by W.J. HUGGINS: engraved by E. DUNCAN published by W. J. HUGGINS 1835.\n\nMacao China woodcut. SPARROT sculpsavit.\n\nPraya Grande Macao; uncoloured litho; n.d. no title.\n\nView in Macao; coloured engraving by J. WEBBER 1788; published April 1st 1809 by BOYDELL and Co.\n\nView in Macao; pair to No.4.\n\nPraya Grande from the North; coloured litho, drawn on stone by Reinagle from the original of George CHINNERY, R.A.; printed by C. HULLMANDEL.\n\nPraya Grande from the South; pair to No.6.\n\nSet of thirteen coloured lithos (French) dessinee par LAUVERNE, litho. par SABATIER.\n\nPagoda Chinoise a Macao.\n\nVue prise sur la rive de Canton.\n\nPagode aux environs de Macao.\n\nInteriour d'un jardin Chinois a Canton.\n\ni.\n\nii.\n\niii.\n\niv.\n\nV.\n\nConvent de la Gaya a Macao.\n\nvi.\n\nvii.\n\nVillage Heong Chang riviere de Canton. Pagode aux environs de Canton.\n\nviii.\n\nix.\n\nX.\n\nxi.\n\nxii. xiii.\n\nVillage de Chinao.\n\nFort de Canton.\n\nPlace des factories Europeennes a Canton.\n\nMaison d'un mandarin a Chinao.\n\nNew China Street a Canton.\n\nVue d'une cuisine Chinois à Canton\n\nSet of four coloured lithos. drawn by LAUVERNE\n\n9.\n\ni.\n\nUne Rue de Canton.\n\nii.\n\nFactories a Canton.\n\niii.\n\nFort de l'entree de la TYPA.\n\niv.\n\n!!\n\n10.\n\n11.\n\n11\n\n12.\n\nti\n\n13.\n\nProcession Chinoise a Macao.\n\nSet of four coloured lithos\n\nii. iii.\n\niv.\n\nMacao Bay,\n\nPublic walk and Chinese tomb Macao.\n\nStreet in Macao.\n\nJoss house inner harbour Macao.\n\nSet of four uncoloured plates; (circa 1790)\n\ni. Plate\n\nii.\n\niii.\n\n51\n\niv.\n\nix. vue de la ville de Macao.\n\nengraved by KENNEDY,\n\nx. vue de l'entree du BOCCA TIGRIS\n\nxi. Pic de LANTAO.\n\nxii. vue de l'ile TIGER.\n\nA view of Macao in China: panorama Leicester Square ROBERT BURFORD;\n\n1844; companion to No. 45 (Hong Kong print).\n\nSix uncoloured aquatints: WATHEN CLARK; published 1814\n\ni. China street with part of the European factories.\n\nii.\n\niii.\n\niv.\n\nV.\n\nvi.\n\nView looking up the TIGRIS to the 2nd bar Pagoda.\n\nAnson's bay from within the BOCCA TIGRIS.\n\nChurch of St. Lazarus near Macao.\n\nMacao with the church of St. Antonio from Camoens garden. Franciscan monastery at Macao.\n\n78",
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        "content_text": "Mr Liati\n\nI attach a\n\nMR Sidebothaon.\n\nslightly amended fair öft. J.J. Anderson.\n\n21/2\n\nThe note at (14) summarises the position about Social Welfare Services in Hong Kong. The comments of the Report Sub Committee of the Colonial Social Welfare Advisory are at (15) & they think that on the whole the position is satisfactory & they have commended the considerable amount of social welfare work which is at present being undertaken in Hong Kong,\n\nYour min of 15/12 suggested that when the R.S.C's views had been obtained, the papers should be submitted to the S.ofS.\n\n7w.27/2\n\nWalhall 21/2\n\nMr. Paskin (through Mr. Webber)\n\nYou will remember that this question of Social Welfare in Hong Kong was one of the matters which the Secretary of State discussed with Sir A. Grantham (see the record at (11) on this file) and it occurs to me that the Secretary of State might be interested to see the Governor's despatch at (13), the enclosure to which sets out a list of the principal activities undertaken in Hong Kong by the Social Welfare Office, and the present draft which answers that despatch which was submitted to the Reports Sub-Committee of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee, and includes their comments on it.\n\nI think the Sub-Committee's conclusion that they were impressed by the great amount of work which is being done in difficult circumstances is a very fair summary of the position in this matter in Hong Kong.\n\n6.8.8.16/0\n\nlead prosed\n\nJr.\n\n98°\n\n22. 2. 1951.\n\n13/3\n\nweb\n\napproval R 16/3157",
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        "content_text": "Hong Kong\n\nDoop: 12\n\n22\n\n19 MAR 1951\n\n$ Chair for 19.\n\nDec. 3.\n\n7\n\nNe\n\n17 & 18 can be\n\nMy Chi\n\nminutes of CSWAC\n\nmarked\n\nthe puntly.\n\nKalksm\n\nwhich\n\n10.2.57\n\nextract from the\n\naction\n\nNo 19\n\n15\n\nan\n\nthe last\n\nmu\n\non\n\n...\n\nan\n\nagree\n\nwith\n\nLove\n\nshones\n\nWebber\n\ndon't know.\n\nHong Kong\n\nThis\n\ncounty\n\nfor\n\na\n\npenne. I\n\non\n\nis hither\n\nting of\n\nis required\n\nIf you\n\nsuggest. Discuss\n\nhe\n\nthere\n\nSocial welfare.\n\nperhaps me Reading\n\nlooking up names.\n\nThank several\n\n7\n\nhen\n\nthe British Council\n\nI think we should\n\nos\n\nMcDonall when he comes or\n\nreturn.\n\nMany\n\nbe suitable\n\nmight be\n\nThis\n\nSubject but\n\nmight be There\n\nunder\n\nan\n\nI\n\nthe aegis\n\nJE King\n\nConsult\n\n10. 7. 51\n\nChinese representation\n\nleave\n\n-\n\nMin Floss, formering\n\nmis watson principal almoner in hong kong\n\nmust be a\n\nunique person. for last year before & minors Monteries;\n\nhave\n\nwondered how he addresses.\n\nwith regard\n\nis the admin tertide",
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        "content_text": "As regards the second proposal i.e. that a small conference should be held to consider the question of co-ordination between the various voluntary Social Welfare organisations, this arose from one of the recommendations in Mr. Chinn's report which reads as follows:-\n\n\"A survey of voluntary organisations should be undertaken with a view to obtaining some measure of co-ordination through a central authority e.g. a strengthened Social Welfare Council.\"\n\nOn this the Governor commented as follows:\n\n\"The Social Welfare Office has already carried out a survey of all the important voluntary organisations. Co-ordination between them is impossible of achievement at one blow, partly because most European-type organisations are reluctant to do so, and partly because the majority of voluntary organisations in Hong Kong are purely Chinese with few or no English-speaking members. These are two of the reasons why the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (formerly called the Hong Kong Social Welfare Council) has proved unable to achieve any effective co-ordination of aims or work amongst the voluntary social services. Efforts have therefore been made by the Social Welfare Office to bring together groups of voluntary organisations who have a clear common interest. A considerable measure of success has been achieved with regard to youth organisations, who have now established a representative Standing Conference of Youth Organisations. In a very short time it is expected that the Kaifong (Resident's) Welfare Associations will also be setting up their own central co-ordinating body. No success has been achieved in getting the European-type relief organisations to work together either amongst themselves, or with the Social Welfare Office.\"\n\nI think that we had better try to arrange a meeting as soon as Mr. McDouall arrives on leave.\n\nMiss Scott Moncreiff and Mr. McDouall should be invited to attend. Miss Harford will no doubt say whether she thinks that anybody in addition to herself should attend from the National Council of Social Service. I presume that you or Mr. Chinn will be in the Chair. If this is agreed, those attending should be sent an extract from my minute to explain what it is we want to discuss.\n\n25th July, 1951\n\nPage 237\n\n10 Sept.\n\nFn.w.22\n\n \nMr. Webber\n\n23\n\n1077",
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        "content_text": "# Extract from Draft Minutes of the 45 meeting\n\nRoper by Sub Committee of the Colonial Social\n\nWelfare Advisory Committee:\n\nMay 1957\n\nAt their first meeting (RSC4/51) the Sub-Committee had examined:\n\n(a) Hong Kong Social Welfare Service: Governor's comments\n\non recommendations made by Mr. Chinn as a result of his visit to the colony. (RSC1/51)\n\nMR. WEBBER reported that the comments of the Sub-Committee had been conveyed to the Governor in a formal despatch from the Secretary of State.\n\nDiscussion then turned on details of the Governor's reply to Mr. Chinn's recommendations. Some concern was expressed about the rejection of the proposal that the establishment of a separate Social Welfare Department, not connected with the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, should be considered (RSC1/51(Appendix C), Enclosure 3, Recommendation No.1), but it was pointed out that the Governor had given his reasons at some length. THE VICE-CHAIRMAN said that this question could no doubt be included in the general examination of Social Welfare organisations in Colonial territories which was due to commence at the present meeting under Agenda Item 6. It was\n\n(1)\n\nagreed that the Hong Kong Social Welfare Officer (Mr. McDouall), who was shortly coming to this country on leave, should be invited to the discussion.\n\nMISS HARFORD drew attention to the remarks under Recommendation No.3 about the difficulties of securing co-ordination between the various voluntary social welfare organisations in Hong Kong. After discussion it was\n\n(2)\n\nagreed that a small conference should be called to consider the problem, and that representatives of the National Council of Social Service, Miss Scott-Moncreiff and Hong Kong Social Welfare Officers who were in this country should be invited to attend.\n\nCD./2845/51",
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        "content_text": "(24534) Wt. 29815-5332 (2) 100m 12/49 G.S.St.\n\n0.\n\nMr. Skinner 16/2\n\n54491/50\n\n166.\n\n•\n\nMr. Webber 27/2 I. Parkin 13/3\n\n5 have\n\nMr. King\n\nMr. Anderson 2\n\nMr. Hall\n\n19/2\n\n21/2\n\n21/2\n\n22/2\n\nMr. Sidebotham\n\nDRAFT DESPATCH.\n\nGOVERNOR\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNO. 72\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.Sin C.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMinister of State\n\n16/3\n\nSecretary of State\n\n16/3/51.\n\nFebruary, 1951.\n\nYour Reference 4/50/49.\n\n19 MAR 195%\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to refer to your despatch No. 125 of the 14th November, 1950, on the subject of Social Welfare in Hong Kong, and to inform you that this despatch, together with its enclosures and with Mr. Creech Jones' despatch No. 56 of 4th March, 1949, and my despatch No. 216 of the 19th August, 1950, has recently been placed before the Reporte sub-Committee of my Colonial Social Welfare Advisory Committee.\n\nI am in full agreement with the Sub-Committee's comments, which are as follows: (App. A-C to (14))\n\nFURTHER ACTION\n\ncopy for 12500/17\n\nThe Sub-Committee felt that the amount of social welfare work which was at present being undertaken, as shown in enclosures 1 and 2, to your despatch under reference, was highly commendable. In particular the Committee welcomed the introduction of the Kaifong Welfare Development Associations which, it was hoped, would continue to flourish.\n\nWith regard to Enclosure 3 to your despatch, giving comments on the report by Mr. Chinn which had been forwarded under cover of Mr. Creech Jones' despatch No. 56 Ireference/\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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