CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932 — Page 125

Sony.

No. 321.

Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

28th June, 1932.

150

c

With reference to paragraph 2 of Lord

Passfield's despatch No. 237 of 19th August, 1930, and

in continuation of Sir William Feel's despatch No. 4

of 7th January, 1932, I have the honour to report that

the number of kui seal on the Registers on 31ɛt ay,

1932, was 3,482.

2. In Sir William Peel's despatch No. 622 of 4th

December, 1930, the original number of Lui isai

registered in Hong Kong was given as 4,299; but since

the institution of the Inspectorate Staff, the

re-organisation and re-checking of the whole system

have shown that the original number should have been

4,368.

The total diminution in numbers up to 7th

January, 1932, as reported to you in Sir William Peel's

despatches No. 622 of 4th December, 1930, No. 293 of

23rd June, 1931, and No. 4 of 7th January, 1932, was 558.

Between 8th January, 1932, and 31st way,

1932, there has been a further diminution of 328 made

up as follows:-

The Right Honourable

(1) Died

6

(2) Returned to relatives

83

(3)

Sir F. Junliffe-Lister, G.b.., M. Q., mm. I'....

&c.,

&c.