again,

2. the victims should be properly compensated for their losses,

3. to guarantee that the teaching and non-teaching staff's job

security would not be violated.

These demands were then presented to the school Management Com-

mittee in writing.

On April 15, the Sports Day of the school,

letters

from the Management Committee informed individual teachers that

Sister Leung had resigned. Mr. Fung Ping-cheung, a Senior Edu-

cation Officer, had joined the Management Committee.

Sister

Fan Ling-chi would act as the School Supervisor and the Manage-

ment Committee had appointed Sister Siu Lai-fong the acting Prin-

cipal of the school. The letter reiterated that the alleged finan-

cial irregularities were being investigated by the Education

Department and in the meantime the Precious Blood Order would

not make any comment or statement on them.

5. The memorandum to the Education Department on April 22 in

assisting with the investigations

A

munication.

The sub-

After the meetings with the Mother Superior and

the Management Committee which comprised Sisters from the Pre-

Blood cious Order, the teachers felt that there could not be any com-

Their denial to make any explanation on the matter

clearly indicated they lacked the slightest bit of sincerity in

working out a solution to the whole financial problem.

sequent resignation of Sister Leung and the reshuffle made in the

Management Committee implied that the Order had put the blame

of misusing school funds on Sister Leung alone, thereby making

a scapegoat of her. Moreover, by removing Sister Leung from

the school, the Precious Blood Order had completely deprived

the teachers of the opportunity to seek first-hand information

from the person who was directly involved.

On April 19, 1977, all the teachers held a meeting

and decided to write a detailed report listing the financial

irregularities to help with the investigation.

On April 22, two teacher representatives handed the

report to the Education Department. Mr. Cheng Tat-lai,

Officer-

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