COPY
No.622.
My Lord,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
139
HONGKONG, 4th December, 1930.
With reference to paragraph 2 of Your
Loruship's despatch No.237 of the 19th of August,1930, requesting reports every six months, beginning with December,1930, of the progress of the campaign against the mui-tsai system, I have the honour to report that the number of registered mui-tsai remaining in the
Colony on the 30th of November was 4,117.
2.
In paragraph 1 of my despatch No.335 of
25th June,1930, I reported that, on June 1st, the total number of registered mui-tsai was 4,183, and that 31
had been registered after June 1st. In addition to these, 85 mui-tsai were subsequently registered, making a total number of 4,299 registrations at the beginning of July. The number remaining on November 30th being 4,117 as stated in paragraph 1, it followe that the local diminution auring the period under review
was 182. These may be summarizeu as follows:-
Returned to parents
Married
Disappeared
...
53
48
31
29
Left to obtain employment elsewhere Died
13
5
Left the Colony permanently
In charge of Secretary for Chinese
Affairs
Wrongly registered
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&C..
&c.,
&c.
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