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No. 232.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG, 5th May, 1932.

As directed in your despatch Hong Kong No.321 of

4th December, 1931, I have the honour to report further on

the question of Adopted Daughters.

Sir,

89

in

82459/31.

2. Many exhaustive conferences between the Secretary

for Chinese Affairs and the District Watch Committee have

resulted in the representations from that Committee which

are appended to this despatch. It was felt in the first

place that considerable misapprehension had no doubt been

occasioned by the wording of the Expert Opinion given by

the Hon. Dr. S.W. Ts'o, O. B. E., in the course of a Mui Tsai case heard before the Police Magistrate in September 1929;

the opinion was printed by the Government and appeared as

Sessional Paper No.12 of 1929. Dr. Ts'o was the first to

agree that his views, which were suited to the particular case before him, had been insufficiently guarded against wider and erroneous interpretation: and he has therefore implemented Sessional Paper No.12 of 1929 by the document

Encl. No. 1. enclosed, preventing undue application of his views as

given in the Mui Tsai case to Yeung Nui or adopted

daughters.

Ami (2)

24 on

62768 71/29

H.L. HOPKINSON

до прод

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,

&c.,

&C.,

&c.

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