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APPENDIX B. 
G. O. No. 2710, Law (General) Dept. 
13th November, 1923. 
Information Relating to Malaya (Rule 17, Indian 
Emigration Rules, 1923). 
NOTICE. 
Penang, Singapore and the Malay States. 
Emigrants wanted for British Malaya , that is, for the 
Straits Settlements , Federated Malay States and other 
Malay States under British Protection. 
Work is available in these countries' for unskilled 
labourers on rubber and cocoanut estates as tappers 
and“ weeders or factory hands, on public roads and 
railways and other similar places of employment. 
Climate. — It is never so hot in Malaya as in Madras. 
The rainfall is about 100 inches and is distributed 
more or less evenly during the year- 
To go to British Malaya you can either pay your 
own fare, accompany a kangani from your own district 
paying neither rail nor boat charges, or if you apply 
in person at Avadi or Negapatam you will, if accepted, 
be sent over free of cost to yourself. None of the 
expenses incurred in bringing you over can be deducted 
from your wages. You will be landed free from debt 
and can leave your employer at any time on giving a 
month’s notice. The journey from Negapatam to 
Penang takes four days. 
If you go with a kangani you will find the work 
for which he recruits you written on his licence which 
also gives particulars of the rates of wages on his 
