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(4) Recruiting in the Outer Possessions. Compared 

 with the number of contract labourers leaving Java, the 

 number of those returning is small. In 1912, for example, 

 40,243 labourers left Java for the Outer Possessions and 

 only 4,571 returned, whilst 4,947 left for foreign countries 

 -and 384 returned. The corresponding figures for 1913 

 were 32,537 and 4,766, and 2,185 and 569. The reason of 

 this is that many, on expiration of their labour contract, 

 do not make use of their right of repatriation, but accept 

 re-engagements either on the same estate or elsewhere. 



The existing estates, in fact, provide themselves in the 

 first place with the necessary labour by making re- 

 engagement contracts, firstly, because by so doing they 

 keep at their disposal labourers suitable for the work and 

 inured to the climate, and secondly, because the great 

 expense of recruiting elsewhere is thereby saved. 



Others establish themselves as free labourers, farmers, 

 small traders, or domestic servants in the country to which 

 they emigrated. 



It also happens that here and there the native population 

 of the Outer Possessions emigrate from one district to 

 another, and there hire themselves out as labourers on the 

 estates. 



On the East Coast of Sumatra, for instance, many 

 Bandjarese (people from the Southern and Eastern 

 Division of Borneo) are found, who are there taken into 

 service by the employers, chiefly for the erection of 

 labourers' dwellings, barns for trade purposes, etc. 



From Nias there is a proportionately large emigration 

 to Atjeh and Tapanoeli, where these emigrants are met 

 with on the estates. 



Islanders from Timor also allow themselves to be 

 recruited for labour on the estates. 



D. Supervision of the Execution of the Labour and 

 Recruiting Ordinances. 



The supervision of the execution of the regulations with 

 regard to the mutual rights and obligations of employers 

 and employed in the districts where such regulations 



