were to endeavour to put
on Chinese families with a view to securing
-pressure
the school attendance.
girl bond-servants.
of
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
2. Leming
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Minute by the Acting Registrar General of
19th April, 1890.
Colonial Secretary,
I have had the point
raised in paragraph
of the
4 of
Inspector of Schools Report under
',
consideration. Having consulted with the Chinese and perused Sir James
Russell's Report on Domestic Servitude,
I regret to be unable to recommend
any interference with the Chinese in their relations with their girl
3.
ser sank
The education of females must
wake na Chinese
be allowed to
progress
gradually.
pressure exercised by this Department
with a view to securing the attendance at school of servant girls would,
I believe, be at once unpopular and
ineffective. Chinese mistresses, being
AAR.