ABSTRACT
The circumstances in which recruiting is carried on are naturally of great importance; not only have they importance for the welfare of the workers, but they have a conspicuous effect on the flow of labour. Where the work is carried on by a government agency or a well-controlled company, there should naturally be no difficulty in exercising proper control or securing the right type of person to manage the business. If the private agent is permitted, certain legal conditions will be found desirable. The recruiter must possess that obscure faculty which can only be described as the ability to 'get on well' with Africans. Medical inspection is practically essential in connection with recruiting, since it is obviously impossible to risk sending a party of men on a long journey, only to find that numbers of them on arrival prove unfit for work.
