( 12 ) 
The assessment at the present rate of $2/- per 
quarter per unit of 78 days’ work is equivalent from the 
employer’s point of view to an addition of 2y 2 cents 
a day to wages of all Indian labourers he employs. 
15. In comparison with these figures it should be 
noted that the cost in 1922 of introducing Javanese 
labourers under indenture was $92.50 and in the 
preceding year no less than $141/- per head. 
But whereas the Indian labourer is landed free of 
debt and is free to leave his employer at any time on 
giving a month’s notice the Javanese labourer intro- 
duced under a contract of service is bound for a 
period of 900 days and has to repay half of his 
“ allowances ” i.e., usually about $6 out of $12 which 
he receives in cash. 
16. The operations of the Indian Immigration Fund 
which at first embraced only the Straits Settlements, 
Federated Malay States and Johore now extend to the 
whole of British Malaya, except the States of 
Trengganu and Brunei, which have not yet sought 
admission. 
17. For the purposes of the Fund the term Indian 
labourer applies only to natives’ of the Madras 
Presidency or the adjoining Native States, i.e., Tamil, 
Telugu and Malayalee labourers with a few Uriyas 
from the north of the Presidency. The bulk of them 
are Tamils — out of 258,000 Indians enumerated on 
1,350 estates in the whole of Malaya at the census 
of 1921, 208,000 were of this race. 
The majority of these imigrants make but a short 
stay in Malaya and any increase in the number of 
arrivals in one year will be reflected in the number of 
