Negapatam, May 27: “Egra” arrived here to-day with mails and passengers from Malaya, the passengers being mostly emigrants returning home after long absence. I understand that about 500 kanganis or recruiting agents have also come by that steamer.Since writing last about the unprecedented rush of people emigrating through this port, my attention has been drawn to the treatment which the people recruited by the Kanganis are given before they are admitted into the Federated Malaya States Emigration Deport. They are asked to stand in rows in the station compound, as soon as they alight here from the trains which arrive during the hot parts of the day in the scorching heat of the mid-day sun before they are identified and counted prior to their being marched on to the Emigration Depot. Published - May 29, 2026 02:54 am IST