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also paid to ex-Muitsai who have obtained employment as domestic servants. It is noteworthy that at the end of the year 74 Registered Muitsai were attending school, the fees paid by the employers for the girls' education ranging from. $5.00 to $30.00 per annum. Fourteen girls were sent to the Salvation Army Home and six girls to the Victoria Home: both these institutions are to be thanked for their co-operation which is always willingly given. ·

6. Eighty-five prosecutions were brought under the Female Domestic Service Ordinance and one hundred persons were convicted. These charges may be summarised as follows:-

Ill-treatment of a Muitsai

Keeping an Unregistered Muitsai

Bringing an Unregistered Muitsai into the Colony... Failing to report the death of the former employer

of a Muitsai

2

36

3.

4

Failing to report the disappearance of a Muitsai .....

1

Failing to report the intended removal from the

Colony of a Muitsai

10

Failing to report change of address

32

Failing to report intended marriage of a Muitsai ... Transferring Muitsai to another employer

8

1

Taking into employment a Registered Muitsai Failing to pay wages

1

2

100

7. In December, 1934, a committee was appointed by His Excellency the Governor to consider certain proposals forwarded by the Secretary of State on the subject of the Muitsai system in Hong Kong and to report on these and kindred matters. The members of the committee were:

Mr. F. H. Loseby, solicitor (Chairman).

Mr. Tang Shiu-kin, M.B.E., J.P.

Mr. J. M. Wong, J.P..

Miss D. Brazier, in charge of the Salvation Army Home

for Women and Girls.