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for labour and expect to find a sufficient supply at band. Your 
Committee wish earnestly to impress upon you their emphatic con- 
eviction that there exists the most urgent 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 closer touch with the great labour market of India and. 
whilst endeavouring to procure sufficient coolies for- their own 
requirements, at the same time to keep in line with unofficial em- 
ployers. Attached are various statistics in connection with labour, 
which should prove of interest : 
Statement oe Coolies Imported by Railways and Public 
Works Department during the year 1901. 
Railway ... 
Public Works Department 
Negri Sembilan 
Perak 
No. of coolies 
landed at 
Klang 
Cost of 
coolies landed 
at Klang. 
Average cost 
of each coolie 
landed 
at Klang. 
$ 
1 ® 
9 
C 732 
43,840.11 
25 ‘ 3 i 
314 
12,166.38 
23-67 
316 
29MO 
[17 
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