CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931 — Page 93

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Telephone:

VICTORIA 6065.

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The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society

in which are incorporated the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and the Aborigines Protection Society.)

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Hon. Secretary : Travers Buxton, M. A.

PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY: John H. Harris.

DENISON HOUSE,

296, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD,

LONDON, S.W.1.

(CLOSE TO VICTORIA STATIONS.)

16th March, 1931.

To:-

The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies,

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

S.W.1.

Sir,

In reference to our correspondence with the

Department on the lui sai system in Hong Kong, and your 8 letter of the 7th ultimo, we beg leave to ask whether any

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reply has yet been received from the Governor upon the

questions raised in our letter of the 12th January, of

wages paid to and hours worked by the lui sai; also

whether any steps have been taken to provide an Inspector

or Inspectors to watch over the treatment of the registered

Mui Tsai wno, we understand, according to the latest figures,

number 4, 117.

According to our information, the regulations made

for the welfare of the lui Tsai are not evoking that measure

of opposition which we had been assured would follow any

attempt to secure radical reforms, and we trust, therefore,

that there will be no hesitation in pressing forward all

measures designed to bring about a complete abolition of

the evils of the system.

Cur Committee has recently had its attention drawn

to the authoritative statements that large numbers of dead

children are being constantly picked up in the streets of

Hong Kong. The figures supplied to us are as follows: