No.207.
RECED
3 0 MAY 1331
by
39
COL. OFFICE
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG, 28th April, 1931.
33.
My Lord,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of // Your Lordship's despatch No.45 of 9th February, 1931,
transmitting a copy of a letter from the Anti-Slavery and
Aborigines Protection Society on the subject of the mui tsai system. I propose in my reply to confine myself to
such points as have not been already dealt with in my
despatch No.82 of February 27th, 1931.
Lumion has they in
Thy
2. The writers appear to contemplate the indefinite
continuation of registration of mui tsai; they also propose
the registration of adopted or foster daughters. So far as
mui tsai are concerned the suggestion would appear to
contravene sections 13 and 15 of the Female Domestic Servants
Ordinance 1923. The practice, when an unregistered mui tsai
is discovered, is not to permit her registration, but to
make such arrangements as appear to be in the best interests
of the girl. During the ten months since the period of
registration ended, 28 such cases have been discovered, 13
of them being new importations into the Colony. Prosecutions
have followed, and after the infliction of a fine, the
employers have in some cases been permitted to take the
girls back to the places whence they had, in ignorance of
Madles to A.5.0 AP. Sex (68
Aned 69
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
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