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"One of the most difficult social problems of Hongkong is the question of child labour. The employment of little children in work, frequently of too heavy a character for their years, and the continual appearance at the Police Courts of child hawkers, are features of the life of the Colony which no one can regard without regret. This employment of children is no doubt largely due to economic causes with which it is not easy to deal, but there is no doubt also that in many cases children are so employed because they cannot be left alone while their parents are at work. If the children can be sent to school this difficulty will be removed, and with the extension of facilities for free, or very cheap education, such as are provided by the present school and of the Confucian Society's schools, to which I have already referred, I look forward with confidence to great improvement in this respect in the near future.
A photograph taken after the ceremony is reproduced below.
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"One of the most difficult social problems of Hongkong is the question of child labour. The employment of little children in work, frequently of too heavy a character for their years, and the continual appearance at the Police Courts of child hawkers, are features of the life of the Colony which no one can regard without regret. This em- ployment of children is no doubt largely due to economic causes with which it is not easy to deal, but there is no doubt also that in many cases children are so employed because they cannot be left alone while their perents are at work. If the children can be sent to school this difficulty will
be removed, and with the extension of facilities for free, or very cheap education, such as are provided by the present school and of the Confucian Society's schools, to which I have already. referred, I look forward with confidence to great improvement in this respect in the near future.
A photograph taken after the ceremony is reproduced below.
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