CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931 — Page 41

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in the Far East, and Your Lordship may therefore prefer

to await the publication of this report before action is

taken.

4.

With reference to the "constructive suggestions"

put forward I would offer the following comments:-

(a) The Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children issued last autumn a report on its

first three months' activities, most of which

was reproduced at the time in the local press.

I understand that the Society will shortly

publish details of the first hundred cases investigated by it and I have no doubt that anyone who is interested will be able to obtain a copy of this on application to the Honorary Secretary. The Society is not in any way an

official organisation.

(b) (1) Remuneration. The general practice appears

to be to pay from $2 to $3 a month. This is

rather more than the sum laid down in the regula-

tions. Cases have been discovered of under pay-

ment but there is no reason to suppose that

these are common.

(2) Hours of Labour. As the law stands at present "No employer of a mui tsai shall overwork such mai tsai" (Ordinance 1 of 1923 Section 6 (1).)

It is difficult to see what advantage is to be gained by elaboration of this Section. As an indication of typical mui tsai work I would refer Your Lordship to the record attached in connection with paragraph 6 below.

(3) Inspection.

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