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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 22nd February, 1929.

Sir,

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your telegram dated the 17th January, informing me that

letters from Mr. J. H. Harris of the Anti-Slavery and

Aborigines Protection Society, published in the Manchester Guardian, summarizing a report of meetings of the Anti-

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muitsai Society in Hong Kong, included allegations that the pledge given to Parliament on the 21st March, 1922, by the Secretary of State for the Colonies had never been carried

out, that the system is in full operation and that the number

of muitsai has increased. You asked me to telegraph my

observations on the above charges, on the immediate reforms

pressed for by the Anti-muitsai Society and on the question of bringing into force part III of the Female Domestic

Servants Ordinance No.1 of 1923.

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I was unable to telegraph any observations,

for I found that no representations whatever had in recent years been made to the Hong Kong Government by the Anti- muitsai Society. This Society had held its last annual meeting in Hong Kong on the 20th October, 1928, but did not thereafter address this Goverment or make any proposals for

immediate

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.