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No. P. 15/396. 
Negapatam , 13th March , 1909. 
The Superintendent of Immigrants, 
F. M. S.,\ 
Penang. 
SiE,-We have the honour to acknowledge receipt of 
vonr No. P.O.L. 270/09 of 3rd instant ancl note that the 
Possibility of reducing the initial cost to employers m the 
Federated Malay States of recruiting labourers by means 
of Kanganies in India has ; recently engaged the attentio 
of the Immigration Committee. , , . 
9 We are surprised to hear that the scale of* chains 
for the services we rendered to Planters has been made the 
subject of some comment as your letter undei i ep > is 
first we have heard of it. 
q The charges are as enumerated by you. 
V We cannot at all agree with you that these services 
do not differ in any considerable degree from those ol an 
agent to a commercial undertaking. 
The work we do for the planters cannot m any way be 
compared with ordinary agency services they are on an 
entirely different plane and involve a great amount of work 
which does not appear on the surface, bub which has had the 
result of building up to the poaihoii it now 
Kanganv labour force in the F. M. S. ami Straits hettie 
ments, and we must say we consider it a little unfair to us 
after the exertions we have made m tlus direction to wish to 
l educe know tllit there is no disposition to 
criticise the manner in which o*ir services to the Planters 
are carried out but are very much surprised to team that 
there appears to be a feeling that the work could and should 
bC ^When* the^prese™ scale of charges was fixed they were 
f u ii v explained to all the Planters with whom we have deal- 
in J and one and all unhesitatingly agreed to them, and the 
Question of reducing these charges lias never been raised 
bv the Planters. On the other hand we have many letters 
from Planters thanking us for the attention we give to their 
interests. 
We have, etc., 
(Sgd.) Maduka Co., Ltd. 
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