4.
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Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hospitals have been added to the
list of places where, under regulation 5(2), reports may
be made.
9.
In none of the 31 cases of disappearance,
except one in which the girl returned to her employers,
could any definite information be obtained. Some of the
girls were supposed to have returned to their relations,
others to have got work elsewhere and others simply to
have eloped. There is nothing to show that any of those
missing got into the hands of traffickers and if they
did I think it may be fairly assumed that it was not
with the knowledge of the employers. It is not unusual
for a mui-tsai who has been reported missing to return
to her employers later having gone without telling any one,
to stay with relations or friends, as in fact happened
in the case referred to above.
10.
The Anti-Mui-tsai Society has co-operated
with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs by laying before
him information which has reached it from time to time, though in some cases the information has been found to
be baseless and probably dictated by anonymous spite.
The Salvation Army Women's Industrial Home established
here in April, 1930, though intended primarily for rescue
work, has taken in a few ex-mui-tsai, and, in the hands
of a devoted and capable woman, is doing good work.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
Love
Governor, &c.