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Inspectors as not to be found when addresses shown on the Register were visited". As pointed out in previous despatches
the number of girls in this category, though it changes from day to day, tends to show a gradual increase. On the 30th November, 1934, it stood at 360 as compared with 342 on the 31st May, 1934, a nett increase of 18.
(c)
The total number of Muitsai on the Register whose addresses were unknown at the end of the period under review, i.e. on the 30th November, 1934, was therefore 725 (84 plus 281 plus 360).
5 (a)
Of
During the period under review there have been thirty-three prosecutions under Ordinance 1 of 1923, involving thirty-one defendants and thirty-two Muitsai. these, eighteen prosecutions were for keeping unregistered Muitsai, two were for bringing unregistered Muitsai into the Colony, ten were for failing to notify change of address, two were for failing to pay wages to registered Muitsai and one
was for assault.
(b)
In the eighteen cases of keeping unregistered Muitsai, one defendant was fined $250;
$250; two defendants were fined $150; three defendants were fined $100; one defendant was fined $75 and $150 on an additional charge of assault; three defendants were fined $50; two defendants were fined $25;
one defendant was fined $10 on a charge of keeping an unregistered Muitsai, a second charge of keeping another unregistered Muitsai being withdrawn on proof that the latter girl was a relative of the employer; two defendants were fined $10; one defendant was discharged by the magistrate on the girl concerned admitting that she was a domestic servant and not a Muitsai; one defendant was discharged on account of the fact that the girl's mother, who at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs had stated that the girl was a Muitsai, gave another version at the Police Court; and one charge