1 40 
for  labour  and  expect  to  find  a sufficient  supply  at  hand.  Your 
Committee  wish  earnestly  to  impress  upon  vou  their  emphatic  con- 
viction that  there  exists  the  most  uri^ent  need  for  anticipating  a 
serious  scarcity,  by  importing  labour  now  largely  in  excess  of  pre- 
sent requirements,  and  at  the  same  time  they  desire  to  again  record 
their  appreciation  of  the  strenuous  efforts  of  the  (iovernment  to 
get  into  cjoser  touch  with  the  great  labour  market  of  India  and, 
whilst  endeavouring  to  procure  sufficient  coolies  for  their  own 
requirements,  at  tiie  saihe  time  to  keep  in  line  with  unofficial  em- 
ployers. Attached  are  various  statistics  in  connection  with  labour, 
which  should  prove  of  interest  : 
Statement  of  Coolies  Imported  by  Railways  and  Public 
Works  Department  during  the  year  1901. 
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of 
Railway  ...  ...  ••• 
, $ ! 
C732 
8 ‘ 
43,840.1 1 
8 
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Public  Works  Department  ... 
S14  : 
12,166.38 
23-67 
Negri  Sembilan 
3^6 
29MO 
Perak  ...  ...  ...  I 
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