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defendant was fined $10 and ordered to pay $27 arrears

of wages.

It is interesting to note that in ten of the

forty prosecutions the girls themselves reported to the

Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, while in two other

cases the mothers of the Mui Tsai came down from the

interior themselves and requested the return of their

daughters; in four cases the Lady Inspectors

interrogated girls whom they met in the street.

In all of the above cases careful arrangements

for the girls' well-being were made by the Secretary for

Chinese Affairs with the usual invaluable co-operation

and assistance of the Po Leung Kuk Committee and the

Salvation Army.

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In paragraph 5 of despatch No.321 of 28th

June, 1932, it was stated that there were 471 Mui Tsai

who had been visited on at least one occasion by the

Inspectors, but subsequent visits elicited the information

that the girls and their employers had removed to

addresses unknown without notifying the Authorities.

One hundred and twenty-two of those girls have since

been located at new addresses and as it seems possible

that many others of those still missing will also be

located, I propose, in the meantime, to retain their

names on the Registers.

The number of Mui Tsai still missing is 349.

The following excerpt from the Anti-Muitsai

Society Report is interesting.

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