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Mr. Calder.
Mr. Poynton.
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? Lord Plymouth might reply to the writer
that the Mui Tsai system which has long existed in
China no longer exists in the Colony of Hong Kong.
Girls who were formerly in the position of Mui Tsai
in the Colony are now free to leave their employers
if they wish to return to their parents or if they
are ill-treated, and their status has become that of
free, paid domestic servants. In 1930 these girls
were registered to the number of 4,368, but by the
end of November last the number on the register had
dropped to 3,017, and the number will no doubt
continue to decrease as the girls marry, return to
their parents, leave the Colony, or for other reasons
are struck off the register.
A special inspectorate consisting of an
English Inspector and two Chinese lady assistants
is now employed by the Hong Kong Government to
supervise the girls on the register and to check any
abuses of the anti-Mui Tsai legislation; the Hong
Kong Government is satisfied that any serious breaches
of the anti-Mui Tsai legislation could not escape the
notice of these inspectors. Before the end of 1931
all the addresses at which girls who were formerly
by luc huspectors Mui Tsai had been registered were visited The
visits paid by the lady inspectors were particularly
appreciated by both the girls and their employers,
and such visits have shown that in general the girls
are contented and well treated by their employers.
This is also borne out
few girls left their employers when they became free
to do so.
by the fact that comparatively
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