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which I took personally to study further such conditions
would meet with derision.
8.
Your Lordship may be interested to learn that I recently discussed the question of mui-tsai with Miss Rains
who is in charge of the Salvation Army Home in Hong Kong and
who has done excellent work in connection with mui-t sai. Miss
Rains equally with myself realises that abuses may exist, as
they do to some extent in the case of servants and even
children not only in this Colony but in England. She holds
the view however that the system is far from being entirely
pernicious and that it has in fact almost certainly been the means of saving the lives of many young children, more particularly among those bom in China, whose parents would
have been unable or unwilling to afford them subsistence.
I have the honour to be,
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My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
Governor, &c.