CO129-527-13 Treatment of Juvenile offenders in Hong Kong 25-9-1930 - 13-12-1930 — Page 3

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What exactly is the point on which you

desire the advice of the Home Office.

best

I believe the last opinion prefers

whipping to imprisonment as a punishment for

children especially whereas in Hong Kong there

is at present no reformitory.

(Intlld)

W.D.E.

£6 August.

I should ask the Home Office

particularly for their views on the practice

of the Government as disclosed in the answer to

Question 2.

An immediate and necessary reform

could be effected in that respect.

But I have just had the opportunity of

seeing General papers on which a suggestion of

mine before I left the General Division

that the time had come to take up seriously

and generally the question of proper treatment

of juvenile offenders in the Dependencies has

resulted in the appointment and report of a

Committee which is now being communicated by

circular despatch to the Governors and which

contains the draft of a Model Bill which if

adopted in Hong Kong will secure the desired

reforms A copy of the Bill is printed on

papers 167 et seq of the Colonial Office

Conference appendices (Cmd. 3629).

Mr. Campbell was the Secretary of the Committee

and Mr. Bushe a member. Dr. Drummond Shiels

was Chairman.

It