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he could get rid of the stigma attached in
Hong Kong to those who had Mui-tsai in their
household and "must he for ever and a day
be saddled with the inconvenience, and indeed
the hardship involved in ownership of a
registered Mui-tsai?"
Another case.
Mr. Kan Hung-Chiu had
two Mui-tsai.During the course of 1929 he
restored one of them to her mother, and the other to her father, but both of them never-
theless returned to his house. He maintains
that these girls are no longer his Mui-tsai,
but nevertheless under the Hong Long law, as
it stands, he will have to register them. He
is unwilling to do this and one of the girls
has already left his household and has not
been heard of since.
The Governor's summary of the position
may be briefly stated as follows:-
There is no doubt that the Mui-tsai
themselves, as well as those who bought and
those who sold them consider that there is
a status of Mui-tsai, and that it is a
status from which it is possible that a girl
should be released. The policy of H.M.G.
however, is that wherever the status exists
in the Colony, Government supervision and
control are necessary.
In the opinion of
the Attorney General, no manumission by an
employer can remove the necessity for super-
vision