CO129-551-2 Mui Tsai system 30-11-1934 - 22-11-1935 — Page 76

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

No.404.

Sir,

C

I apare cope

6.D.

30.8.35

53502 76

30

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

3rd July, 1935.

If in 72758/30

&om 1901/1/30- Senk. /

With reference to paragraph 2 despatch No.237 of the 19th August, 1930,

of Lord Passfield's

*

and in continuance

8 of Sir William Peel's despatch No.23 of the 10th January, 1935,

I have the honour to report that the number of muitsai on the

Register on the 31st May, 1935, was 2,122, being a decrease of

169 on the figure for 30th November, 1934, which was 2,291.

The decrease is made up as follows:-

2

(i) Died

(ii) Returned to parents or relatives.

(iii)

Absconded and untraced

(iv) Left Colony permanent ly

(x) Married

(vi) Entered domestic service

...

(vii) Left employer to earn own living

(viii) Handed to care of Secretary for Chinese

Affairs.

(ix) Convicted of larceny

1

49

12

9228

27

39

25

9

6

1

169

3. (a)

"

In addition to the 12 muitsai noted in paragraph 2

as Absconded and untraced", one muit sai absconded and returned

to her employer a few weeks later. I have also to record that

one of the girls who was reported as having absconded during

the six months ending on the 30th November, 1934, returned to

her employer during the period under review and was handed over

to the care of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, H.P.,

&c

&c.

&c.

(b)

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