mployer's expense, and has been in all respects
recognised as a member of the family.
Moreover, the se
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girls still remain wards of the ecretary for Chinese
Affairs ung are still under supervision.
in paragraph 5 of despatch No.321 of 28th
June,1932, it was proposcú 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 namee from the eziater.
total of 5,017 still on the
egisters.
Thie leaves a
3. During the periou under review there have
been 40 prosecutions under Ordinance No.1 of 1923.
Of these, thirty-three were for keeping
unregistered Mui Isal with additional charges of aseault
in two cuber; four for bringing unregistered Mui Twai
into the colony; one for ill-treating & registered
Aui Teai; and two for failing to pay wages prescribed
by the Regulations made under the ruinance.
in two only of the above thirty-three cases
were there aggravating circumstances.
in one case the
mother of one girl complained to the Police that her
daughter was being ill-treated by the employer, who was
eubsequently charged before a magistrate (a) with
keeping an unregistered ai Tsui and (b) with assault. he was finea $250 on the first charge and the second
charge was dismissed, the magistrate remarking that
as the girl was not found in the possession of the aefendant
at the time of arrest, there was not sufficient eviuence
to