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Expert Evidence.

To The Editor of Hongkong

Telegraph.1

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929,

SAINT ANDREWS.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

OF SOCIETY:

At the annual general meeting of the St. Andrew's Society at the City Hall. last evening, office Sir With reference to the ex-bearers for the year 1929-1990 port evidence given by the Hon. werd unanimously elected as

follows:

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| Dr. S. W. The on the mui tani eaza i reported in your paper, to-day I beg to differ from the statement of President. Mr. A. H. Fergu this gentleman that the adoption son. Proposed by Mr. R. M. of the surname (as that of the Dyer and seconded by Mr. R. owner) was not uncommon to mul- Sutherland. tsala. According to him, It is Vice-President-Mr. KE common for mui tsai to be given Greig. Proposed by Dr. Black and the game surname as those of their seconded by Mr. B. Wylie. owners but the truth is just op- SecretariesMessrs. E. M. posite to what he represented it to Bryden "and J. S. Drummond. be

Proposed by Mr. A. H. Ferguson and seconded by Mr. A. Staven-

Treasurer. Mr. T. J. H. Fox. Proposed by Mr. K. E. Greig and seconded by Mr. A. Ritchie.

To my mind, the practice of give ing one's surname to a mai tanlaon. is not common in Hongkong There is the moral obligation to marty off a mul taal when she comes of age and' in this event- the occasion when the question of her surname crops up-she is in- variably given her real surname or that appearing on the "presen- tation" card. A new name is given to a mul taai immediately Chairman (Mr. Ferguson) and In proposing the accounts, the after her purchase, as eve that very little comment school-boy knows, but the question

Cameron, D. Gow, K. B. Morricon, General Committee:-Messra, A. Dr. J. C. Macgown, Messrs. A Ritchie, A. Stevenson. P. Tod and B. Wylle.:

Scottish Co. H.K.V.D.C.

Was

to

that he wished to make a few Mr. Ferguson. then intimated remarks with regard to the Scottish Company of the Hong- kong Volunteer Defence Corps,

the strength of the company was At present, said Mr. Ferguson,

of a new surname does not arise. necessary on the accounts as they So much for the practice in Hong-stood. The society continued to kong, and Hongkong is not China.ourish, but there was still room Granted; and we have to look for more members. He would be further afield. To my knowledge, pleased to receive any Scottish new arrivala. After all, the the practice of giving one's sur name to a girl purchased and meetings of the Society were treated as a mai tsal does not ob- gatherings of the clans in a mild tain in the districts of Tung Kun. keep up a good tradition amongst

way, and induced Scotsmen San Wul. Kow Kong, Shun Tak as themselves. well as Heung Shan from which, the learned doctor hails." In some of these districts mui tsals are married off from out-houses or specially-selected places as being unfit to be married from the family house. Clans are clannish and to give one's surname to a person' bought as a chattel and a girl at that is, conceivably, unthinkable.

"It is conceivable, however, that was nearly 120, and it was a real a little over 60. At one time It the learned doctor has at his complessure to see it so. I admit mand reservoirs of knowledge that are inaccessible. to a humble there may be some very potent seeker of truth who patiently reasons as to why the Company's awaits to be enlightened. To the strength is reduced," he remark- non-Chinese of Hongkong,

ed, "but I feel aure that there fusion is worse confounded over various offices in town who might.

are a great many Scotsmen the mui tsal question by conflict- be prevailed upon to join up with ing reports of the status and con- the Scottish Company. It is just dition of the mui teal. It is resa question of a little unobtrusivo spectfully submitted that in the soliciting." interest of Truth and for the en- lightenment of the public. you, Sir, should procure for publication the sixteen pages of expert evi dence and answers to twenty-two speckic questions for which Dr. Tao has received the thanks of the Bar as well as those of the Bench.

con.

STUDENT.

Mr. George Duncan Chen seconded the acceptance of the accounts, and the motion WES carried.

After the election of officers, the President proposed a vote of thanks to the late President, Mr. C. Gordon Mackie, at present away from the Colony on leave.

A Fine Record.

Sir, May I crave the hospitality of your columns to get right one

Mr. Ferguson referred in the or two erroneous views on the Mui highest terms to Mr. Mackie's Tsai Question as expressed by fine record, while in office, and Dr. S. W. Tso' and by the Bench. to the invaluable services he had According to your issue of yes-rendered the society. What he terday's date, it was argued that had done for them and towards the girl had adopted the name of making the annual ball a success her mistress, but there again, would never be forgotten. they had Dr. Tso's opinion that the adoption of the same surname was not uncommon to Mui Tsai.”

The vote of thanks was carried by acclamation.

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The President then put the question as to whether St. Andrew's Day should be observed. with a ball this year, or by some other function. The-members. all'un voted in favour of a ball. Mr. Ferguson then asked if there were any questions or suggestions in connexion with the ball.

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I beg leave to point out that where expert opinion becomes in- expert is in making a glittering gen- eralization of this nature. One or two rare, and isolated cases in Hongkong may be quoted in which a. maidservant might receive the surname of the mistress or that of the family to which she belongs, when the child's ancestral origin

The Ball. Supper. is entirely obliterated through the Mr. J. Russell said that he relentlessness of the traffickers in wished to point out that there child slavery in Hongkong. But was a large amount of food this is an exception which obvious wasted at the ball supper. Every ly does not prove the rule. Ac-year there was the question of cording to custom prevalent in the the supper or a buffet. The interior of Kwangtung Province supper was always a congested or in Canton itself, Mui Tesis are affair, and consumed two thirds not known to have assumed the of the total amount expended on surname of the mistress or that the ball. He suggested that the of the family. In point of fact, buffet method might be adopted. Mui Tsai is and has always been The President, in reply, Bald regarded as such an insignificant that if the supper was done away creature, that at the time of mar-with they might have to do away rlage, she can only walk out of the with the ball. After all it only household to her bridal chair by occurred once a year, and the the back door. In most cases, the supper was attended by many Mui Tsal is not allowed to hold people who liked to sit down to her wedding in the home of her Scottish fare,

that

mistress. Few mistresses or más- Mr. Russell réplied ters would brook that idea. She previous experience had shown must be married in a separate that there was a good deal of house altogether. This is merely waste. He was not quibbling. cited to bring out the low.esteem but other societies carried in which a Mui Taal has been held through almilar functions' with 'a In a Chinese family and how much buffet. The matter was worthy loss likely it would be a common of consideration. practice for a Mui Teai to adopt

the surname of the mistress.

Mr. B. Wylle then pointed out that in days gone by-and he re- Now it remains for me to quote ferred only to a few years ago the words of the Bench on the tho oupper menu was a very long Mui Tsal question, "that the Mul one, something like 18 items. Tsai system, was one which had Within the last few years the come in for much criticism. If committee, had gone into the they were to accept Dr. Tao's matter, and last year. the items opinions, it seemed to him (the came down to something like magistráte) that much of the eight.. criticism was unmerited." So far

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