CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931 — Page 112

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LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION

Honorary Presidents :

Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P. Rt. Hon. J. R. Clynes, M.P.

Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, O.M., M.P.

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Rt. Hon. the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G. Rt. Hon. the Viscount Cecil, K.C.

Chairman of Executive Committee:

Professor Gilbert Murray, LL.D., D.Litt. Secretary:

J. C. Maxwell Garnett, C.B.E., Sc.D. to whom all communications should be addressed.

RECEIVED

My Lord,

1 3FEB 1931

12th February, 1931.

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I am desired by the Executive Committee of the

League of Nations Union to refer to two communications

on the subject of the Mui Tsai system in Hong-Kong

180 42759/50 addressed to you on May 26th and August 1st, 1930, and,

in this connection, to express the satisfaction of the

Executive Committee at the publication of the Report of the Governor of Hong-Kong, dated June 25th, 1930.

The Committee notes that 4,000 Mui Tsai have been

registered and that, in the opinion of the Governor, no further measures are at present required to promote the policy expressed in the existing law.

At the same time the Committee recalls Section 8

of your Despatch to the Governor, dated August 22nd, 1929, which reads as follows:-

8.

I must, therefore, direct that the third part of the Domestic Ordinance should be brought into force forthwith, and special care must be taken to inform the population generally that it is in force, and that it will not be allowed to be a dead letter. You should also at once proceed to make Regula- tions under Section 12 of the Ordinance for the keeping of the Registers for the remunera- tion of Mui Tsai, and for their inspection and control. It will be doubtless necessary for you to appoint additional officers in the Department of the Secretary for Chinese

Affairs to carry out the work of registration and inspection.

Having regard to the fact that, in his Report, the Governor deals only with the question of re- gistration and makes no reference to the other points

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