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Honourable C. P. CHATER.-You said you heard of the Pó Léung Kuk in San Francisco. How long ago is that?
A.-It was in 1880 or 1881.
The CHAIRMAN.-The Society was only founded in 1880.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-How did you hear of it?
A.-A subscription paper was sent to San Francisco.
The CHAIRMAN.-Have you seen the draft Bill for the incorporation of the Society ? * A.-No, I have not read it.
the Pó Léung Kuk is a well known
Honourable F. H. MAY.-I suppose the Pó Léung Kuk is
institution in Hongkong?
A. Yes.
Q.-The outside public take a great interest in it?
A. Yes, certainly.
Q.-Does the Committee furnish any annual report for the information of sub- scribers ?
A. Yes, I think so.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-Have you any idea how many members there are in the Society?
A.-There are eight or ten on the Committee.
Q.-But members of the Society?
A.-I don't know.
Q.-There may be 50 or 100?
A.-There may be that. I think it is a rule that any one who subscribes $10 becomes a life member.
Honourable F. H. MAY.-The subscriptions appear to me to be very small.
A. Yes. They are very small. They are not enough to support the Society, and that is why the Tung Wa Hospital has to pay for it.
Q.-If the Society is so well known and does so much good how is it that the subscriptions are not larger? You would think that such a society would be helped by large subscriptions?
A.-You see, it detects many cases of kidnapping and protects the poor women and children. As soon as they come down from Canton to Hongkong they are stopped and many people lose their money. Some of the girls they have to pay $400 for, and if two or three of them are stopped, they lose $1,000.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-Those men don't subscribe ?
A.-No.
Honourable C. P. CHATER. How many subscribers do you think there are? A.-I don't know,
Q.-Have you any idea how many there were during the year that you were Pre- sident of the Tung Wa Hospital?
A.-No.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-Have you ever subscribe yourself to the Pó Léung Kuk?
A.-I forget whether I have or not.
* See Appendix 28.