CO129-514-2 Mui Tsai system- suggested regulations and possible abolition 9-1-1929 - 16-5-1929 — Page 49

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22 August, 1929.

I have had under my

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consideration the correspondence

relating to the Mui Tsai question

in Hong Kong ending with your

despatch No. 251 of the 16th of

May.

2. The question is by no

means a new one. It attracted

the atten2ion of my predecessors,

Mr. Churchill and the Duke of

Devonshire, and al s! Le House

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of Commons as far back as 1922.

In reply to a Question in the

Fouse of Commons Mr. Churchill

stated in a reply which was

communicated to your predecessor

in a telegram of 21st of March,

1922)