CO129-547-13 Mui Tsai system 13-6-1934 - 11-10-1934 — Page 13

No. 354.

Sir,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

13th June, 1934.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the

receipt of your despatch No.140 of 11th April, 1934,

on the

2.

subject of Muitsai.

Future returns will contain the statistics

called for in the second paragraph of that despatch, viz. the total number of Muitsai on the Register whose

addresses are unknown at the end of the period covered by the return other than those recorded as having

permanently left the Colony.

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3.

•

As reported in my despatch No.633 of the

28th December, 1935, the number of registered Muitsai

who were missing at the end of the period under review in that despatch (i.e. on November 30th, 1933) was 750. These missing Muitsai may be divided into three

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categories:-

These

(a) "Muitsai registered but never visited".

originally numbered 299 (see paragraph 5 of Mr. (now Sir Thomas) Southorn's despatch No. 321 of 28th June, 1932) but, as reported in subsequent despatches, 167 (93 plus 36 plus 58) have since

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER,

&c.,

&C.,

G. B. E., M.C., M.P.,

&c.,