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reply that if
you do not like it you
had better get another man.
Unless very stringent measures are taken, it will soon be impossible to obtain a private chair or ricksha coolie.
4. Cannot get one under $9 a month.
5.
Seven dollars.
6. Certainly, unless this is done there might just as well be no registration at all, as the majority will not take the trouble unless they are compelled.
JAMES M. FORBES, China Sugar Refinery Co., East Point.
1.-Yes.
2.-Yes.
3.-Outside ricksha labour more remunerative ever since the occupation of the Philippines by America.
4.-$9 per month.
5.-$7.50.
6. Most certainly.
A. FUCKEERA, Army and Navy Contractor, 20, Yee Wo Street.
1.-Yes.
2. Not very much.
3.-(1.) Owing to house rent being very high, and the prevalence of plague, very few disengaged coolies remain in the Colony to look for employment. (2.) A strong, able-bodied coolie considers he can make more money by running a private ricksha on his own account, and hire himself and ricksha out to visitors, or Captains of merchant ships.
4.-Ten dollars.
5.-Eight dollars.
6.--No, necessities compel employers to engage the first coolie he can get, whether the man is licensed or otherwise.
R. MACLEAN GIBSON, London Mission House.
1.--Yes, chair coolies.
2.-Yes, chair coolies.
3.-(1.) They demand more wages than I can give. (2.). I find that they are be- coming very insolent and even very reasonable demands are demurred at, with the result that I have often to dismiss them.
4.-Eight dollars per month.
5. Two years ago paid seven dollars per month. (Only came to Colony three and a half years ago.)
6.--Yes. (If registration is to be of any use there must be uniform action on part of employers of chair coolies or ricksha coolies.)
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