Dear Mr. Greham-White,
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1st June, 1931.
Thanks for your letter of 23th May about the
Mui-tsai in Hong song. I was interested to read the cuttings
which you enclose, some of which I had already seen.
I am afraid that I have not been quite success-
ful in putting the case of the Government on this subject, and
evidently you and some other of my colleagues are not yet quite
satisfied.
I went to make it clear that when we say that
we have no reason to believe that the law is being evaded, we
do not mean that no attempts have been, or will be, made to
evade the law. As I pointed out, we have here a city of over
a million people, with a traffic to and from the mainland of
100 50,000
round about 4,999 each way per day.
We have imposed laws
concerning this subject of Mui-tsai which make a fundamental
break in an age-long custom.
We did that, further, when many
people,
H. Graham-White, Esq., M.P.