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RECEIVED
9 DEC 1929
COL. O
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18
CE
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 7th November, 1929.
My Lord,
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ང་ མཉམ Enclosures Nos.1-3.
Enclosure No.4.
Enclosure No.5.
the
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of Your Lordship's despatches No.213 of 21st August, and No.250 of 4th September, 1929, regarding a case of alleged cruelty to a mui-tsai in this Colony, and to forward for your information the accompanying newspaper reports of the legal proceedings arising out of this case, together with a
translation of the deed of transfer. Attention is
particularly invited to the preamble to the latter document.
The girl has been returned to her mother.
2.
3.
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As regards the night-work on which this girl was employed I enclose a copy of an ordinance amending the Industrial Employment of Children Ordinance, which was passed by Legislative Council on the 31st October.
I.
4.
No.
The answers to the questions contained in
Mrs. Haslewood's letter of 1st August are as follows:-
Chi Kai cannot be located but it is not in
the Colony.
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fatin.
Slavery
Fal
Copy has been furnished.
II.
III.
Yes.
IV.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
Industrial wages are not regulated by law in this
Colony; but the wage paid to this girl was not
unduly low, when it is remembered that a
labourer
LORD PASSFIELD,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
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