CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 567

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& cond time and pursues the same

:

tactics, but in some cases she gets

a

rebuff. Her next step is to

go

to the

Registrar General and the object of

A

discretion

the section is to give to the Registar General of the Courts if the case if the case comes before them, to declive to restore the

girl to the custody of a woman,

who is re

really trafficking

Air

Ruman

flesh. As the section will probably only apply to persons of the Chinese

race,

I see

20

objection to it _ a

somewhat servilar prarsion was contained in the repeated (Eduianc vit 19 of 1889 Section 23 which specified invever the age of the girls sought to be protected. The Registrar General

a that the

strongly urged

age

however

should remain undefined he says and I have no reason to doubt his

stak ment that

amongst

Chinese this

kind

kind of sale and barter

στι

ques after the

age of 16 and therefore although I felt some

difficuity

give in

in leaving the word without limitation of age I -

considered the matter not of.

sufficient importance to insist in

my

viewo.

(Signed) A II Leach.

Act. Attorney General.

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