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Honourable C. P. CHATER.-You are convinced that the Society has done and is doing a great deal of good work?
A. Yes.
Q.-Don't you think that it would be best for it to continue to do this good?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you think that by passing this Ordinance it would better its position in any shape or form?
A.-I have not read the Ordinance, so I don't know.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-Do you know how many employees the Society has ?
A.-Only a few.
Q. How many?
A.--I think there is a book-keeper, two or three men in the Office, and two or three detectives.
Q. Have you ever heard that the detectives squeeze ?
A.-Well, sometimes complaints are made that the detectives have squeezed. People say that money was paid to them and that then they let the girls go, and that if they would not pay they would arrest the girls. But then many of these reports may be false, and the Pó Léung Kuk Committee have tried to find out as well as they could.
Q.-Have the Committee ever discovered any one of their detectives squeezing?
A. When I was on the Committee of the Hospital I heard of none of these things.
Q.-They were never able to trace or prove one case ?
A.-No.
Q.--What control has the Society over the detectives?
A. The detective is under the Committee of the Society.
Honourable F. H. MAY.-Have you ever heard of the members of the Hongkong Police Force squeezing?
A. Yes, sometimes.
Mr. WAI YUK next called.
The CHAIRMAN.--Are you acquainted with the Pó Léung Kuk?
A.--I am.
Q.--How long have you known it?
It com-
A.—I have known it since it was started fourteen or fifteen years ago. menced at GIBB LIVINGSTONE'S old office, Messrs. LEUNG ON, FUNG MING-SHÁN and others were the movers.
Q.-You have been acquainted with the Society since it was founded?
A.- -Yes, because I remember I was invited to subscribe $10.
QDid you subscribe ?
A. Yes.
Q.--Then you are a member?
A. Yes.