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EMIGRATION.
Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, No. 30 of 1915.
(i).—EMIGRATION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, (FREE).
(Table IV).
6. The number of female and minor passengers examined and allowed to proceed abroad was 19,622 (women 12,548, girls 2,069 and boys 5,005) as compared with 18,479 in 1923.
7. The record of the occupations of the female emigrants over 16 years of age shows that out of a total of 12,548, 4,096 were going to join relatives, 4,370 with relatives or husbands, 445 as tailoresses, 457 as prostitutes, 2,990 as maidservants or nurses, 3 as cooks, 136 to work on the land. There were also 32 actresses, 10 hairdressers, 5 students and 4 miners.
8. 3 women were detained for enquiries; 26 were detained in 1923.
9. Repatriation of Women and Girls.-
(a) From Singapore.--Seventy-nine (79) prostitutes were sent back from Singapore of whom seventy-three (73) were returned on the ground that they were too young to practise prostitution.
An application was received for the recovery of a woman who had emigrated to Singapore but she has not yet been found.
(b) From Penang.--One prostitute was repatriated during the year.
(c) From Perak.--2 girls taken into Perak for immoral purpose were returned at their own request and handed back to their mothers.
(d) From Bangkok.--1 girl who was supposed to have been kidnapped from China was sent back to her relatives at Canton.
10. Prosecutions under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance undertaken by this office number 7 with 4 convictions as compared with 14 cases and 11 convictions in 1923.
(ii).—MALE EMIGRATION, (ASSISTED).
(Table V).
11. The figures for the year show a decline in the number of assisted emigrants, which was only about 80% of the number in 1923.