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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25тH MAY, 1895.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.- No. 227.
The following Report of the Pó Léung Kuk Society for the nine months ending 31st December, 1894, which was laid before the Legislative Council on the 23rd instant, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th May, 1895.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary,
R.G.O. No. 5.
REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 8th April, 1895.
SIR,I have the honour to forward for your Excellency's information the report of the Pó Léung Kuk society for the nine months ending the 31st December last, together with the accounts and a statement of the assets and liabilities of the society with a declaration of the truth of it made before a Justice of the Peace by two of the members of the Permanent Board.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
His Excellency
SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary and Registrar General,
REPORT.
The Pó Leung Kuk Incorporation Ordinance, as amended by direction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, came into force on the 31st March, 1894.
The following ten gentlemen were clected to act as the Managing Committee for the year:-
TONG WAN-CHIU.
CHAU SIU-KI.
IP CHUK-KAL
LI SAU-HIN
CH'AN KING-TING.
FUNG WA-CHÜN.
WAI MIN-CHAI.
KU FAI-SIAN.
HUI SHUN-CHÜN. WONG UI-CHÜN.
Messrs. LEUNG PUI-CHI and YUNG KUNG-Pó were appointed Treasurers for the Society, and the Managing Committee receive from them each month sufficient to meet the monthly disbursements.
The funds of the society are at present on deposit with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, as no more suitable investment has offered itself.
Attached is a statement giving briefly the work done during the last nine months of 1894. In each case of marriage or adoption ample security has been required. Three of the wards died during the year.
On the commencement of the plague the wards were removed from the apartments occupied by them in the Tung Wa Hospital to the second floor of three houses in New Street. Acting on the advice of the Colonial Surgeon, the Tung Wa Hospital has made use of the apartments formerly