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instead to engage a servant at a regular wage. Generally there was a tendency to engage
servants on a wage agreement in place of Mui Tsal.
At the beginning of this year the agitation against the "Mui Tsai System" in Hong Kong was
renewed in this country by a letter from
Mr. J.Harris to the "Manchester Guardian",
who quoted the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Anti-Mui Tsai Society, Hong Kong, an association which had been formed locally at
the time of the earlier agitation, but since
the passing of the Crdinance had held no meeting
for several years until 1927 when they discussed
the alleged disappointing results of the
Ordinance but made no representations to the
Governor. The present Governor, Sir C.Clementi,
had, however, noticed in one of the vernacular
papers of Fong Kong shortly before the Society's
meeting a statement that since regulations had
been promulgated in Canton abolishing the Mui
Tsai the number of persons selling children in
Hong Kong had increased. To supply information to the Governor on this allegation the Secretary
of Chinese affairs had interviewed the President
of the Anti-Mui Tsai Society in Hong Kong who, however, though he admitted responsibility for the statement in the newspaper, could not supply
any definite information. The Canton
regulations were clearly to be regarded as no
more than "eye-wash", Mui Tsai being renamed
"adopted daughters". The Governor was informed
that no increase in the number of cases of
traffic in children appeared to have been
brought