These companies are then responsible for the delivery of the required number of men to the final employer. In this case the immigrant contracts with the board of immigration and signs his agreement before the Hawaiian consul at the port of departure in his own country. The board of immigration assigns these laborers to their several employers, and they are at no expense until they reach their field of labor. The quarters furnished by the plantation are grouped together in camps, located with reference to convenience to work, and for the most part with regard to drainage and sanitary conditions. The kind of building varies with the class of labor.
European labor has for a family, or for two single men, two rooms in a four-room cottage.
Chinese, being single men, are housed in barracks with from six to forty men in a room. Single Japanese are often provided for in the same way - sometimes, however, only two occupying the same room. Married Japanese are furnished with a small room for each family. These houses are rough frame buildings, shingle or iron roofed, with covered porches six feet wide, extending their whole length. All lately erected buildings are well raised from the ground.