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Q.-There is a ballot you say?
A. Yes.
Q. How often did you attend on an average the Committee meetings?
A.-I attended almost every Sunday every week.
Q. How many members of the Committee were present at those meetings? A.-Generally six or seven.
Q.--Did it happen occasionally that there were a fewer number present?
A. Such meetings were simply informal. We had nothing to do with the other meetings.
Q.-At that time-the time you were vice-president-did the Pó Léung Kuk exercise, with the consent of the Committee, Police functions?
A.--What do you mean by Police functions?
Q.-I mean the arresting of any individuals, men or women, and detaining them at the Pó Léung Kuk quarters.
A.-I do not know what they may have done at present but during our time they generally called upon the Police to give the men or women into the custody of the Police.
Q. I wish you to answer my question. Did the Committee of the Pó Léung Kuk Society authorise and sanction the detectives of the Society arresting any individuals--man or woman?
A.-I don't know.
The CHAIRMAN.Had you any detectives during your term of office?
A. Yes, we had two.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-Did you ever issue any instructions to arrest or detain anyone?
A.--Never.
Q-A supposed offender?
A. No.
Q.-You are not aware they ever did so?
A.-I am perfectly certain that they never did so during my term. They might have arrested one if they supposed him to be a kidnapper, but we never authorised our detectives to bring a man to the Pó Léung Kuk and keep him there.
Honourable Ho KAI.-Did they ever arrest supposed kidnappers? A.In the absence of any Police, anybody has a right to arrest.
The CHAIRMAN.-Hadn't you detectives then?
A. Yes, two.
Q.-What were they for.
A.--To find out kidnappers.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-As Deputy Chairman did you ever of your own responsibility authorise the detectives to do certain things?
A.-We simply authorised the detectives, in case they found kidnappers or found any women or men in the custody of men of suspicious character, to bring the parties to the Police or to give them into the custody of the Police.
Q.-Were those instructions embodied in any books of record of the Society? A.—I cannot remember exactly, it is so many years ago.