CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929 — Page 32

Mr.

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Mr.

Mr.

Mr. Bottomley.

Sir E. Harding.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

Alr. Ormsby-Goxe. Mr.W. Lunn Lord Lovat—– Mr.A.Ponsonby Air Amery, Lord Passfield

62838/29 Hong Kong.

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Sir,

Downing Street,

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THE HONORARY SECRETARY,

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THE ANTI-SLAVERY AND ABORIGINES PROTECTION

SOCIETY.

(N=73)

I am etc. to refer to the letter

from this Department of the 26th of July

last, relative to an 'alleged case of

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purchase of and cruelty to a Mui Tsai in

Hong Kong, and to inform you that a

despatch has been received from the

(in white) as

Governor of Hong xong stating that the

whias

report, published in the "Daily Mail"

of the 8th of July, is in the main

correct, a Chinese woman being

convicted and fined $25 for breach of

Section 4 of the Female Domestic Service

Ordinance, 1923, by unlawfully taking

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into her employment a Mui Tsai aged 14.

This was the first prosecution under

that Section of the Ordinance. Among

the documents relating to the

acquisition