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Subsequently it was carried unanimously, that a financial Sub 

 Committee be formed, consisting of Messrs. Gumming, Duncan",. 

 Skinner and Pears, and that your Government be invited to appoint 

 a number of official representatives, to join the planting members, 

 and consider the merits and details of the various schemes submitted. 



I have, &c., 



H. C. E. Zacharias, 



Secretary, 



Kuala Lumpur, i/th February, 19TI. 



Sir, 



I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 

 17th February, 1911, forwarding a copy of a resolution passed at the 

 last meeting of the Planters' Association of Malaya, held on the 12th 

 February, to submit to this Government certain recommendations on 

 the subject of Agricultural Labour, viz : — 



(1) That the Federated Malay States Grovenment make a loan 

 during 1911 of $1,000,000, and that the Indian immigration cess to be 

 levied in the Colony, the Federated Malay States, Johore, and the 

 other British Protected States in the Peninsula, be a sum not exceeding 

 $2.50 per quarter, so that it be possible to pay a bonus of about $15 

 per imported Indian coolie. 



(2) That a Labour Department proper be instituted with control 

 over all labour, Indian, Chinese, Javanese, and other, with a sufficient 

 staff to see that the present enactments are carried into effect. 



I am to say that in response to the invitation of the Planters* 

 Association of Malaya, the Government has appointed the Chief 

 Secretary, Sir Arthur Young, K. C. M. G., the Acting British Resident 

 of Negri Sembilan, Mr. R.J. Wilkinson and the Superintendent of 

 Indian Immigrants, Mr. L. H. Clayton, to consider, in consultation 

 with the planting members, the merits and details of the several 

 schemes submitted. 



On Sunday, 1 2th February, it was arranged that a meeting of 

 this sub-committee should be held at Carcosa at 10 a.m., on Sunday, 

 19th Februarj^ The Chief Secretary presumes that you have informed 

 Messrs. Gumming, Duncan, Skinner and Pears of the place and time 

 of meeting. 



I have, &c., 



J. R. O. Aldworth, 

 Ag. First Assistant Secretary, F.M.S. 



The Secretary, 



Planters' Association of Malaya, 

 Kuala Lumpur. 



No. 23 in 7158/1910. 



Kuala Lumpur, 3rd March, 191 1. 



Sir, 



With further reference to your letter of the 17th February, 1911, 

 I am directed to say that no reply appears to have been sent to you 

 with regard to the 2nd resolution contained in your letter. 



