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Mr.
Mr.
Mr. Bottomley.
Sir E. Harding.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Sir G. Grindle.
Sir C. Davis.
Sir S. Wilson.
Alr. Ormsby-Goxe. Mr.W. Lunn Lord Lovat—– Mr.A.Ponsonby Air Amery, Lord Passfield
62838/29 Hong Kong.
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Sir,
Downing Street,
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5 - NOV 1929
29.
2 DRAFT. S
THE HONORARY SECRETARY,
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THE ANTI-SLAVERY AND ABORIGINES PROTECTION
SOCIETY.
(N=73)
I am etc. to refer to the letter
from this Department of the 26th of July
last, relative to an 'alleged case of
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purchase of and cruelty to a Mui Tsai in
Hong Kong, and to inform you that a
despatch has been received from the
(in white) as
Governor of Hong xong stating that the
whias
report, published in the "Daily Mail"
of the 8th of July, is in the main
correct, a Chinese woman being
convicted and fined $25 for breach of
Section 4 of the Female Domestic Service
Ordinance, 1923, by unlawfully taking
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into her employment a Mui Tsai aged 14.
This was the first prosecution under
that Section of the Ordinance. Among
the documents relating to the
acquisition