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the thing up as a bad job. To all his representations 

 Mr. S, would only say : " Bo-oy, you better shake you 

 shirt-tail and do de buckra work." After a time the 

 young man made up his mind to clear out, else he might 

 possibly have been there still. 



Frequently men come into the bush sick, and such 

 are an expense to their employers. It is a pity that a 

 medical examination could not be added to the system 

 of registering the men now existing. It would save the 

 greater part of the present number of deaths in the bush. 

 I believe that a medical pamphlet on those ailments 

 most frequent in the bush would be much appreciated by 

 those working there. 



There is no doubt that the present Ordinance is keep- 

 ing back the gold industry. Let licences be given to 

 purchase raw gold on the spot where it is found, and 

 stores and farms will rapidly be established there. Let 

 the registration of labourers be made optional, and they 

 will be engaged and paid weekly, or daily, on the spot 

 itself. A great economy of labour will thus be effefted, 

 and the laws of demand and supply will regulate its 

 price. The country would be opened up. We should 

 no longer hear of boat-loads of stuff being trans- 

 ported up and down the riverj of placers giving 

 out and causing a loss on unemployed labour, 

 and of labourers starving in the bush and some- 

 times returning to town after a four months' trip to 

 find they cannot get their money. The system of ad- 

 vances would probably be done away with, and the in- 

 dustry largely developed. We live in hopes. Give us a 

 new Ordinance is the cry of the gold-diggers ! Who will 

 hear us? 



