COPY.
Pedder Building
Hong Kong.
13th December 1929.
68
The Honourable
Mr. E.R. Hallifax
Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
Sir,
On the 21st ultimo Mr. Kan Hung Chiu of the
Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, and proprietor of the
Ming Tai Bank called on me to ask about the law relating
to registration of muitsai which was to come into force
on the 1st. instant. He was anxious to know about the
position of two girls who were formerly his muitsai and
have come back to his house after having been restored
to their parents. I advised him to call on Mr. North
acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and lay before him
the facts concerning them so that these facts may be
recorded in the archives of the Secretariat for Chinese
Affairs Department.
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Mr. Kan called on me again on the 26th ultimo,
informing me that he had seen Mr. North, with the two
girls in question, on the 22nd ultimo, but his interview
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with Mr. North gave him no satisfaction in as-much-as
Mr. North desired him to register these girls as muitsai
so that it may encourage others to come forward and
register.
This Mr. Kanwas unwilling to do as these
girls were no longer his muitsai and moreover one of them
had already left his house, on the 23rd ultimo,, the day
after she saw Mr. North.
Mr. Kan has since written me the enclosed
letter dated the 27th November setting out the facts concerning these two girls with a request to transmit the
same to you to be kept on record.
In view of the many difficulties in the way of
enforcing