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12th March , 1909. 
Tlie Federal Secretary, F. M. S., 
Kuala Lumpur. 
Indian Immigration Committee. 
Sir I have the honour to draw your attention to a 
Buie, which the I. I. Committee have recently issued m ■) e 
Ke01 i&Sa n S C to the good effect or otherwise of this 
new Rule Lems to be somewhat divided, but I would men- 
iou llmt at the last Meeting of this Association a motion 
was carried bv 10 votes to (i (there being o abstentions), 
v ;V„ “that the'Reernitiug Allowance is against the interests 
of flip; Planting community . ’ ’ . . 
However, as regards the method of deciding upon this 
Rule the Meeting was unanimously and emphatically oi 
opinion that drastic financial changes of such far-reaching 
consemieuces ought never to have been made, without m- 
Sg E expression of this Association’s opinion 
thel The Chairman of the I. I. Committee, who has been 
annealed to in this matter, refers us to the Tamil Immi- 
gration Fund Enactment, which indeed would seem . to 
confer upon the Immigration Committee well uigli 
ed powers, and he assures us that the views of this Asso 
ciation will be carefully considered. 
The members of my Association howeyei feel \e > 
stronglv, that such consideration would be of considerabl} 
sreater usefulness, if extended to the opinions of the Plant- 
ing Industry before and not only after any new Rules aie 
issued. position of the Immigration Committee, as 
at present const tilted, seems all the more anomalous, as the 
Planting Community’ have no say whatever m its com- 
position and although there are three seats on the Com 
mitteo filled bv planters, the selection oi the individuals is 
entirely outside the control of the Planting Community, 
who have no guarantee that the three gentlemen selected 
represent the opinions of the majority of planters in the. 
I UU I have therefore been instructed to submit to you a 
resolution, which was carried unanimously at the last Meet- 
ing of this Association, held on the 28th ultimo, viz. _ 
° ‘ ‘ That with a view to securing a representative opinion 
of planters, the Government be asked, that the 1 lantin 0 
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