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5. The number of persons reported by Hongkong residents to the Po Leung Kuk as missing during the year was 84, of whom 38 were found, as compared with 60 and 28 in 1918. The total number of persons reported missing, including reports from China and Macao, was 117, of whom 42 were found, as compared with 63 out of 111 in 1918.
EMIGRATION.
Asiatic Emigration Ordinance No. 30 of 1915.
(i.)—EMIGRATION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, (FREE). (Table IV.)
6. The number of women and children passengers examined and allowed to proceed abroad was 8,550 (women 5,442, girls 650, and boys 2,458) as compared with 5,366 in 1918. During the first three months emigration of this type was very slack, but owing to increased shipping accommodation after the month of April it gradually increased.
During the year only two ships went to South Africa with women and children passengers; one in August and the other in September.
During the months of April and May several batches of female and minor emigrants proceeding to Bangkok, Siam, were brought to this office for examination; but after the month of May this emigration through this office ceased entirely.
7. The record of the occupations of the women emigrants aged over 16 years as given by themselves shows that out of a total of 5,442, 1,839 were going to join relatives, 1,161 going with relatives or husbands, 302 as tailoresses, 905 as prostitutes, 682 as maid-servants or nurses, 413 as cooks, and 108 to work in tin mines and on plantations. There were also 1 teacher, 2 actresses, 23 hair-dressers, 1 temple keeper, 2 nuns, and 3 repatriated by Government.
8. Forty-four or 0.84% of the total number of women and children emigrants were detained for enquiries as against 15 or 0.27% in 1918. Of these, 15 were allowed to proceed after enquiry, and of the remainder, who were kept temporarily in the Po Leung Kuk, 3 were restored to their relatives, 20 were sent to their native places, 1 was married, 1 was released under bond, 1 died, and 3 remained in the Po Leung Kuk at the end of the year, their cases being still under consideration.
9. There were no applications for the recovery of women or girls who had emigrated. 8 women or girls were repatriated from Singapore, 3 of them were the family of a Singapore banishee, 1 refused to stay with her husband in Singapore, 2 were taken to Singapore under false pretences, and 2 who went to Singapore via Amoy were returned as suspicious characters. They were all handed back to their relatives or seen off to their destinations.
One girl who absconded from Singapore with a man, was found in Hongkong and sent back to Singapore.
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5. The number of persons reported by Hongkong residents to the Po Leung Kuk as missing during the year was 84, of whom 38 were found, as compared with 60 and 28 in 1918. The total number of persons reported missing, including reports from China and Macao, was 117, of whom 42 were found, as compared with 63 out of 111 in 1918.
EMIGRATION.
Asiatic Emigration Ordinance No. 30 of 1915.
(i.)—EMIGRATION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, (FREE). (Table IV.)
6. The number of women and children passengers examined and allowed to proceed abroad was 8,550 (women 5,442, girls 650, and boys 2,458) as compared with 5,366 in 1918. During the first three months emigration of this type was very slack, but owing to increased shipping accommodation after the month of April it gradually increased.
During the year only two ships went to South Africa with women and children passengers; one in August and the other in September.
During the months of April and May several batches of female and minor emigrants proceeding to Bangkok, Siam, were brought to this office for examination; but after the month of May this emigration through this office ceased entirely.
7. The record of the occupations of the women emigrants aged over 16 years as given by themselves shows that out of a total of 5,442, 1,839 were going to join relatives, 1,161 going with relatives or husbands, 302 as tailoresses, 905 as prostitutes, 682 as maid- servants or nurses, 413 as cooks, and 108 to work in tin mines and on plantations. There were also I teacher, 2 actresses, 23 hair- dressers, 1 temple keeper, 2 nuns, and 3 repatriated by Government.
8. Forty-four or 84% of the total number of women and children emigrants were detained for enquiries as against 15 or 27% in 1918. Of these, 15 were allowed to proceed after enquiry, and of the remainder, who were kept temporarily in the Po Leung Kuk, 3 were restored to their relatives, 20 were sent to their native places, I was married, I was released under bond, 1 died, and 3 re- mained in the Po Leung Kuk at the end of the year, their cases being still under consideration.
9. There were no applications for the recovery of women or girls who had emigrated. 8 women or girls were repatriated from Singapore, 3 of them were the family of a Singapore banishee, 1 refused to stay with her husband in Singapore, 2 were taken to Singapore under false pretences, and 2 who went to Singapore ciâ Amoy were returned as suspicious characters. They were all handed back to their relatives or seen off to their destinations.
One girl who absconded from Singapore with a man, was found in Hongkong and sent back to Singapore.
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