CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929 — Page 123

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neighbouring province of China a few miles away.

Thousands go in and out of the Colony daily, and

no serious control of their movements is, or

without great expense could be, maintained by the

Hong Kong Government.

The Chinese authorities across the

frontier have made ineffective efforts to abolish

the mui tsai system, but so long as they are

the

complete exclusions of ineffective it cannot be expected that in practice

from the

bolony presents

mari tsai

no mui teai shall dxist in any Chigest household

great difficulties.

❤aakiing in Hong Kong-

But it is the policy of the Hong Kong

Government to aim at the

eradication of the system

as far as the Colony is concerned, and the

prosecution of any employers for offences against

this policy as set out in the laws of the Colony.

The Government also has in mind the promotion of

a local society on the lines of the Society for the

Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the hope that

obstacles which in certain directions may confront

official action may be overcome with less difficulty

by the activities of such a society.