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concerning Registered and Unregistered Muitsai. Numerous visits were also paid to ex-Muitsai who have obtained employment as domestic servants. It is noteworthy that at the end of the year 115 Registered Muitsai were attending school, the fees paid by the employers for the girls' education ranging from $3.00 to $40.00 per annum. Eight girls were sent to the Salvation Army Home and four girls to the Victoria Home: both these institutions are to be thanked for their co-operation which is always willingly given.
6. Fifty-seven prosecutions were brought under the Female Domestic Service Ordinance with sixty-three convictions. The charges on which convictions were obtained included thirty-three charges of keeping Unregistered Muitsai, three charges of bringing Unregistered Muitsai into the Colony, twenty-two charges of failing to report change of address, four charges of failing to pay wages to Registered Muitsai and one charge of assaulting a Muitsai.
7. There were also five prosecutions with ten convictions on charges connected with trafficking in minors (Ordinance 2 of 1865, Offences against the Person).
8. Under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, No. 4 of 1897, seven cases were brought and eight persons were convicted and two discharged. These were mostly cases of harbouring or procuring.
9. For a fuller report on the work of the Po Leung Kuk, see Annexe A of this report.
EMIGRATION.
(Ordinance 30 of 1915).
(Tables IV and V).
10. The number of Assisted Emigrants was 1,565, as compared with 459 in 1933. Although this number is comparatively small as compared with the 8,316 who went in 1930 it may be taken as an indication that the worst of the depression is now over in the South Seas and that the demand for Chinese labour is again on the increase. The majority of these Assisted Emigrants went to the Netherlands Indies to which countries emigration was practically at a standstill in the previous year.
11. The emigration of women and children showed a very large increase, the total being 33,467 as compared with 12,190 in 1933. Most of these women and children went to Malaya, indicating that Chinese returning to that country are sufficiently confident of the improved situation to take their wives and children with them.
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concerning Registered and Unregistered Muitsai. Numerous visits were also paid to ex-Muitsai who have obtained employ- ment as domestic servants. It is noteworthy that at the end of the year 115 Registered Muitsai were attending school, the fees paid by the employers for the girls' education ranging from $3.00 to $40.00 per annum. Eight girls were sent to the Salvation Army Home and four girls to the Victoria Home: both these institutions are to be thanked for their co-operation which is always willingly given.
6. Fifty-seven prosecutions were brought under the Female Domestic Service Ordinance with sixty-three convictions. The charges on which convictions were obtained included thirty- three charges of keeping Unregistered Muitsai, three charges of bringing Unregistered Muitsai into the Colony, twenty-two charges of failing to report change of address, four charges of failing to pay wages to Registered Muitsai and one charge of assaulting a Muitsai.
7. There were also five prosecutions with ten convictions on charges connected with trafficking in minors (Ordinance 2 of 1865, Offences against the Person).
8. Under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, No. 4 of 1897, seven cases were brought and eight persons were convicted and two discharged. These were mostly cases of harbouring or procuring.
9. For a fuller report on the work of the Po Leung Kuk, see Annexe A of this report.
EMIGRATION.
(Ordinance 30 of 1915).
(Tables IV and V).
10. The number of Assisted Emigrants was 1,565, as com- pared with 459 in 1933. Although this number is comparatively small as compared with the 8,316 who went in 1930 it may be taken as an indication that the worst of the depression is now over in the South Seas and that the demand for Chinese labour is again on the increase. The majority of these Assisted Emigrants went to the Netherlands Indies to which countries. emigration was practically at a standstill in the previous year
11. The emigration of women and children showed a very large increase, the total being 33,467 as compared with 12,190 in 1933. Most of these women and children went to Malava. indicating that Chinese returning to that country are sufficiently confident of the improved situation to take their wives and children with them.
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