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Q-But you could easily do it?
A.-I think so.
Q. What would you do with the girls?
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A. We should require a place for them. I believe they are sent to the Tung Wa Hospital now.
Q.-At home how are they disposed of ?
A. Well, there is hardly this kidnapping there, you know. They take up a lot of unfortunate women to private homes and keep them.
Q.-There are such things as public homes?
A. There are reformatories.
Honourable F. H. MAY.-There are homes for fallen women ?
A. Yes, they are privately kept up by private subscriptions. A number of excel- lent ladies go round the slums and get the girls to go in, but it is entirely private work.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-If a home was established solely and simply for the temporary detention of these women and children until they were properly reinstated in some respectable way, does it seem to you that it could be done?
A.-I should think it could be done under the Registrar General as Protector of Chinese.
Q.-You would be disposed to approve of the Government giving a grant?
A. Certainly, where there is a regular supervision.
Q. Where Justices of the Peace could visit?
A. Yes, in the same way as gaols and hospitals.
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The CHAIRMAN. Regular visitors?
A. Yes.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-At present the Society's Home is not so visited?
A. I understand it not open to the public. If it had been I should have gone to see it myself.
Q. Are you a Justice of the Peace ?
A.-I am.
The CHAIRMAN.-You never expressed any wish to go into the house? A.-No, I did'nt.
Q.-One point I wish to ask you about, the cases that come up under the Women and Girls' Ordinance (Ordinance 11 of 1890) are invariably sent to the Police and the charge laid before the Police?
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A. Yes, they must be sent up from the Registrar General's Office, and brought before the Magistrate.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-Do you know whether that is done before or after the investigation before the Pó Léung Kuk?
A.-I cannot tell that.