Telegraph :
50 CITIZENRY, CHURTON, LONDON.
Telephone:
VICTORIA 6065.
The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society
in which are incorporated the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and the Aborigines Protection Society.)
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HON, SECRETARY:
Travers Buxton, M.A.
PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY: John H. Harris.
To:-
RECEIVED
DENISON HOUSE,
10 FE31932
7.
296, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD,
LONDON, S.W.1.
COL
(CLOSE TO VICTORIA STATIONS.)
The Under-Secretary of State
for the Colonies,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
S.W.1.
9th February, 1932.
Sir.
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Ref. 82759/31.
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On behalf of the Committee of this Society, we beg to
thank you for sending a copy of the half yearly report to
31st May last of the Governor of Hong Kong on the Mui Tsai
question, for the information of the Society.
Our Committee is glad to know that penalties have been
inflicted on persons convicted of keeping or bringing into
the Colony mui tsais who have not been legally registered,
and that the girls have in nearly all cases been restored to
their home surroundings.
We venture again to urge that registration should be
extended to include adopted daughters, as we have noticed that
in several cases brought before the Magistrates, defendants
have pleaded that their mui tsai is a regularly adopted
daughter, and use this as an excuse for employing a mui tsai
in contravention of the law. We cannot think that the
Governor could now say that there is no evidence of this
being done.
We note that the Hong Kong Press has advocated compulsory
registration of all adopted children, and that all adopted
children should be put by law on an equal footing with natural
children in rank and inheritance, on the ground that this
would reveal the character of many adoptions made to evade