32. 45.
Questions to Cror by tel prom Sofs Ger's replies by despatch.
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32.
SUMMARY OF No.32 AND No.46.
1. Apparently a primary
difficulty is to obtain
evidence that particular
girls are uitsai and to bring home to them their
right of personal freedom.
A proclamation advertising
their rights was issued in
1922. Have any similar
proclamations been issued
subsequently?
If not,
would it be practicable to
issue them regularly or
even have notices
permanently displayed?
2. What are the
objections in practice to any system of registration
of muitsai?
3. How far is any system
of registration possible.
whether covering all muitsai
in the Colony or excluding
those not domiciled in the
Colony.
46
(Para.19) The Governor finds that no
proclamation has been issued on
this subject since that of
April 14th, 1922, which was a
translation in Chinese of a
proclamation suggested in his predecessor's telegram of March
28th, 1922; but he has now
issued another proclamation of
which he encloses a copy and
which he will cause to be
permanently displayed at Police
Stations and, if nossible,
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at steamer wharves and other
public places. (Such. 4 to 46)
(Para. 16) The Chinese authorities,
in the regulations made by them
on the 1st March, 1927,
required the registration of all muitsai existing at that time.
These regulations, however,
have remained a dead letter.
The Hong Kong Government, on
the other hand, while enacting
Part III of the Female
Domestic Servants Ordinance,
No. 1 of 1923, which provides
for registration of muitsai,
determined to suspend the
operation