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31st March, 1931.
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Dear Dr. Shiels,
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we were grateful for the information given in your letter of February 23rd regarding the regulations governing the remuneration, inspection and control of Kui Tsai in Hong-
Kong, and I hesitate to trouble you further in this matter.
My Committee would, however, be glad to know whether these
regulations are being applied with satisfactory results and,
since I see that, in reply to a question put to you recently in the House, you referred to the existence of "a report giving the effect of the six months' working of these regulations" Ι am venturing to ask if you would be so good as to supply me
with a copy of this report for the information of my Committee.
The Report of the Governor of Hong-Kong, dated June 25th, 1930, and issued as a White Paper in December, contains one passage which seems to suggest that No. 5c of the regulations
has not been conformed with in all cases. The Governor states
that "apart from these cases which actually come to the Government's notice, I am informed on good authority that
in many cases Mui Tsai have been sent to the country homes in China of employers of the middle and upper middle classes." This surely constitutes "removal from the Colony" and should have been reported in accordance with the requirements of No. 5c of the regulations?
It is in the hope of obtaining further light on points
such as this that I am anxious to see the report to which you referred in your reply to lir. Campbell. I believe too, that
the second of the six-month enerts asked for from the
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