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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

28th December, 1933.

72758/30 (14+)

(81)

(7)

With reference to paragraph 2 of Lord Passfield's despatch No.237 of the 19th August, 1930, and in continuation of my despatch No.374 of the 4th July, 1933, I have the honour to report that the number of Muitsai on the register

on the 30th November, 1933, was 2,749.

2.

On the 31st May, 1933, the number of muitsai

still remaining on the register was 2,820.

Between that

date and the 30th November, 1933, there has been a further

decrease of 241, made up as follows :-

Copy to LPN. Womens Adorsory

(i)

Died

5

(ii)

Returned to parents or

relatives

56

(iii)

Absconded

22

(iv)

Left Colony permanently

86

(v)

Married

34

(vi)

Entered Domestic Service

19

(vii)

Left employer to earn own

living

6

(viii) Handed to care of

Secretary for Chinese Affairs

10

(ix)

Handed by employer to

French Convent

1

(x)

Remaining with family,

but not as employees.

2

241

On the other hand, out of the 206 girls referred

(1)

to at the end of paragraph 2 of my despatch of 4th January,

1933,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

&c.,

&C.,

&C.