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Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.--Do the detectives of the Pó Léung Kuk interfere at all with the Police force?
A.-No.
Q.-You have never heard that they interfered in any way?
A.--No.
Q.-Do you think that, because there are detectives of the Pó Léung Kuk Society, the members of the Police force are less energetic than they would be otherwise?
A.-No.
Q.--You said that if this proposed Ordinance were not passed, you did not think that the Committee would carry on the work in the future as well as they have in the past?
A.-Unless they are all good men on the Committee.
Q.--Why should they not be able to carry on the objects of the Society as well as in the past?
A.--They have power under rules approved by the Secretary of State to ignore the Registrar General altogether.
Q.-But he has power to deal with the women and girls?
A.--So long as they are not sent to the Society. Once they are sent to the Society they become the inmates of the Society.
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Q.--Do you think that, if the Society had a proper Home, they would be better able
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A.--Yes, certainly.
Q-But you think it necessary to entrust them with the disposal of all cases brought before them?
A. Yes. At the same time the Registrar General will be President and he would know what was going on.
Q. How would the Captain Superintendent of Police do as President? A.-The Chinese would not care so much to be associated with him. that the Registrar General was constituted the protector of Chinese.
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Q-Don't you think the Chinese are as capable of taking care of themselves as any other race in the world?
A. No.
Hon. F. H. MAY.-Do you think it would be a good thing to add the Captain Superintendent of Police to the Committee?
A. -No, I don't think so.
The CHAIRMAN.-Does the Captain Superintendent of Police know Chinese? A.-No.
Q.-Then it would be necessary to have an interpreter present?
A. Yes..
Q. Do you understand that, if this Ordinance was passed, the Directors would have
to sit with the Registrar General and investigate each case?
A. --Yes.
Q-Every case must be investigated in some manner?
A.-Unless they delegated some of their functions to an elective Committee.
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Q.--How are these cases investigated now
A.-By the Committee.