CO129-532-5 Mui Tsai system- resolutions and correspondence with private individuals 23-7-1931 - 18-12-1931 — Page 45

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British _Commonwealth_League

Hon. Gen. Secretary: Miss. D. D. SOLOMON.

Secretary:

MISS TODHunter.

Australia.

Australian Federation of Women Voters. Feminist Club, Sydney.

Queensland Women's Electoral League. United Associations, Sydney.

Victorian Women Citizens' Movement. Women's League of New South Wales. Women's Non-Party Association of South

“To secure equality of liberties, status and opportunities between

men and women in the British Commonwealth of Nations."

Australia. Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia. Women's Union of Service of New South Wales.

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MRS. CORBETT ASHBY.

Vice-Presidents:

VISCOUNTESS ASTOR, M.P. MISS MAUDE ROYDEN, C.H. MISS HARRIET NEWCOMB. MRS. RISCHBIETH (Australia).

Chairman of Committee : MRS. SHARPE.

Societies Affiliated.

Great Britain.

Association for Moral and Social Hygiene. Hendon Women Citizens' Council.

National Council for the Unmarried Mother and

Her Child.

National Union of Societies for EqualCitizenship. National Union of Women Teachers.

St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance. The Open Door Council.

Women's Freedom League.

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Hon. Organiser:

MISS COLLISSON, M.A. (Sydney).

Canada.

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Montreal Women's Club (Franchise Committee).

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Women's Indian Association.

New Zealand.

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British West Indies. Barbados Women's Suffrage League. Bermuda Woman Suffrage Society.

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(Three minutes from Charing Cross).

Rt. Hon. Lord Passfield,

Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, Downing St. S.W.1.

6th August, 1931

Sir,

I beg respectfully to call your attention to the following

Resolution which was passed at our recent Annual Conference,

when twenty-seven societies from all over the British Empire

were represented.

"This Conference welcomes the action taken by the Secretary

of State for the Colonies in relation to the Ordinances bearing on the Mui Tsai system in Hong Kong, and urges the appointment of inspectors for the vigorous and immedi- ate enforcement of this ordinance, and for the efficient inspection of all existing Mui Tsai,

I beg to remain,

Very truly yours,

m. Chave Collesson

Hon. Political Secretary