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a home which is a Place of Refuge for women and girls.
(B) It is a fact that there is no legislation
The Gover
in Hong Kong as to the hours of child labour,
recently reported that he was appointing a Committee to
consider the feasibility of legislation on the subject.
(In case 6 of Commander Haslewood's "evidence of child
slavery" the children referred to were with their own
parents and the suggestion that the adoption of children
leads to their being overworked is not therefore support-
ed by this case on the contrary)
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(C) The Governor states that the Committee
of the Po Leung Kuk (vide under A) are active along the lines of preventing "mui tsai" being sold into prostitu-
tion.
The "evidence" quoted by Lieutenant Commender daslewood is sufficiently dealt with in the Governor's Confidential despatch of 10th March. As regards the
"facts" the following notes may be made.
(1) True: but see the full statement under A above. (2) The children normally work about the house as
maidservants.
(3) True: but this has nothing necessarily to do
with mui tsai vide B above.
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(4) This was not the only report made by the
Governor.
What he actually did say (inter alia) was that we definite refutation of charges made in general terms and unsupported by any evidence is necessarily difficult, but that if Lieutenant Commander Haslewood or
Lieutenant
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