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, 17th February, igu. 
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 I2t 
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 $IS 
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 Planteis 
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, 12th February, it was arranged that a meeting of 
this sub-committee should be held at Carcosa at 10 a.m., on Sunday, 
19th February. The Chief Secretary presumes that you have informed 
Messrs. Cumming, 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, 1911. 
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. 
