Straits Settlements (Rubber Plantations, Wages)

Major POLE
asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies the general rates of wages paid to male, female, and child labourers in the rubber plantations in the Straits Settlements?

Dr. SHIELS
The following average rates of daily wages are taken from the Straits Settlements Blue Book, 1927:-----------------
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|Singapore:     |
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|Indian Tappers |
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|Weeders        |
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|Factory coolies|
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|Penang:            |
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|Tappers            |
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|Weeders            |
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|Malacca:           |||
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|Tappers            |
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|Weeders, etc.      |
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|Store coolies      |
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|Chinese            |
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|Javanese and Malays||
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Separate information regarding the rates of wages paid to children is not available but it is being obtained by despatch, and will be communicated to my hon. and gallant Friend when received.