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Copy Wardens Office
Gladstone 5th January 1889
Sir,
In obedience to the instructions contained
in your Memo of the 29th January last I have
the honor to report relative to the Pacific
Islander employed at the furnaces of the Conran
Gold Mining Coy Ltd on the Norton Gold Field
Since first the Kanakas were
employed at the furnaces of the Company I
have been particular that all of them should have
Exemption papers and during the management
of Mr Conran this was carried out but soon after
the appointment of the new manager I found on
one of my visits to the Norton Gold Field no
less than eighteen out of 23 twenty three Kanakas
without Exemption papers. I at once ordered them
to be dismissed which the manager did the following
Saturday
I pointed out to him that he would be
fined heavily on each of them. He stated that
he had known several of them (the Kanakas)
for many years and that they had been in
Queensland from ten to twenty years and they
stated they had lost or worn out their papers
I found their agreements were from periods
of none and twenty months as firemen at the
Roasting furnace of the Conran G.M Coy Ltd
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most obedient servant
Alexander Macarthur
Gold Fields Warden
The Under Secretary
Mines and Works Dept
Brisbane
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