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The CHAIRMAN.-I think you will agree with me that perhaps it is best to treat this petition as part of the general proceedings of the Committee instead of selecting it for special treatment and if in the report you wish to draw attention to it you are at liberty to do so.
Honourable Ho KAL.-Is it part of the proceedings?
The CHAIRMAN.--Yes, it is referred to in the evidence and it comes in as part of the appendix.
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Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-In their letter to you of the 20th of September they said:"We have recently presented a petition to the Government regarding the Society, and shall be glad if your Committee will ask to see it." They thereby invited our attention to the improper motives they had attributed to one or more of us. I should like to include in the proceedlings a note I wrote to you on October 4th in connection with that petition. I wrote asking that it should be sent round to us and you replied that it should be sent round if the other members agreed, which they did.
The CHAIRMAN.--I did not know it was intended to be treated as a formal note, but I will look through my papers for it. I have no objection to its being put in.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-I would like it put in.
The CHAIRMAN (to Mr. F. H. MAY).-Mr. MAY, are you in a position to give your opinion on the points which have been referred to the Committee? Do you want any further information ?
Mr. F. H. MAY.—I require no further information. The CHAIRMAN.-I take it Mr. CHATER does not.
Honourable Ho KAI.-No.
Do you, Dr. Ho KAI?
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD (to Mr. CHATER).-Beyond these particulars that you require from the clerk of the Pó Léung Kuk ?
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-Yes.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-There is one point and that is as regards the remarks of the Police Magistrate, Mr. WODEHOUSE, with reference to the working of the Pó Léung Kuk. 1 offered to put them in as part of the proceedings at a previous meeting, but the Chairman overruled me and said it could be left to a later stage I am still desirous of including those remarks of the Police Magistrate on the working of the Pó Léung Kuk.
The CHAIRMAN.-I said that we should have to recall the Police Magistrate, but I have no objection to the report of the Daily Press being put in, if the other members
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(Members a cquiesced and the "Daily Press" report of the Police Magistrate's remarks on the working of the Pó Léung Kuk were put in the proceedings of the Committee.)
The CHAIRMAN.-With regard to these particulars which are required, do know, Mr. WHITEHEAD, what they are?
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Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-I will frame them. I should like to know the number of members there are in the Society. How many there were, the first year, how many the second year, and how many in each year up to date, and a few other particulars-I forget what they are. I asked the Chairman of the Directors if you remember when he was here, but he could not tell me. He had no idea of the number of members in the Society.
The CHAIRMAN.-I would suggest that Mr. MAY and Dr. Ho KAI be requested to procure this information for the Committee, and circulate their report among the members after which we might have a meeting and finally decide upon our report.
* See Appendix 44.