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We understand that the Governor General of Netherlands India 
is now prepared to grant permits to recruit Javanese. Applications 
so far received will be considered on their own merits and according 
to the date presented. Arrangements will be made wherby all 
permits granted will not be able to exceed in recruiting over 1000 
coolies tier month, After the permits already presented have become 
exhausted, then those permits now going in will be taken in rotation 
and according to the date received. 
We learn that pemits have already been received applying to 
recruit 25,000 coolies and if the above arrangements are enforced 
then it will take over 2 years for the permits already applied for to 
become exhausted, and we think therefore the chance of obtaining 
Javanese labour is a very poor one. 
Yours faithfully, 
Kennedy & Co., 
Secretaries. 
Messrs ' Singapore, 19th May, 1911. 
The Planters’ Association of Malaya, 
Kuala Lumpur. 
Dear Sirs, 
We are in receipt of your favour of the 10th May, 1911, and beg 
to thank you for your enquiry for Javanese labour. We have sub- 
mitted same to our Batavia branch and shall communicate with you 
again as soon as a reply is to hand. 
Yours faithfully, 
Per Pro . Behn, Meyer & Co., Ltd., 
E. Asbenz. 
At this point the Chairman says that as the correspondence is 
evidently long he proposes that the Meeting should consider it under 
its headings according to the agenda. 
2. INDIAN LABOUR. 
The Chairman says that the meeting had heard the Government’s 
reply in regard to quarantine expenses. Since the last meeting he 
had received a telegram from various District Associations down on 
the coast asking him if he could meet their representatives on the 
previous Sunday. They had met, the meeting being due to a rumour 
having got about that recruiting was to stopped, and steamers would 
take no more coolies from India owing to the Quarantine Camp 
being full. The matter was discussed very fully, the result being 
that he was asked to go and see the Chief Secretary. He had been to 
see him on the Monday. There had been certain correspondence 
since, but he (Mr. Skinner) would ask the meeting to into Com- 
mittee as he did not wish it made public. 
