2.
4.9
In each of the four cases under head viii the
employer has no children or no un-married children
and the Mui Tsai has been given the family name, has
been educated at the employer's expense, and has
been in all respects recognized as a member of the
family. Moreover, these girls still remain wards
of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and are still
under supervision.
In paragraph 5 of despatch No.321 of 28th
June, 1932, it was proposed that, if no further
information were obtained before the next half-yearly
report regarding the 299 girls there referred to,
they should be written off the Register. So far
only 93 of the original 299 have been traced and as,
in the case of the remaining 206, exhaustive
enquiries have been fruitless, I have now removed
their names from the Register.
of 3,017 still on the Registers.
3.
This leaves a total
During the period under review there have
been 40 prosecutions under Ordinance No.1 of 1923.
Of these, thirty-three were for keeping
unregistered Mui Tsai with additional charges of
assault in two cases;
four for bringing unregistered
Mui Tsai into the colony; one for ill-treating a
registered Mui Tsai; and two for failing to pay
wages prescribed by the Regulations made under the
Ordinance.
In two only of the above thirty-three cases
In one case
were there aggravating circumstances.
the mother of one girl complained to the Police that
her