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That Government is at, present making careful investigations into the refugee problem-was disclosed at a meeting of the Finance Com mitico yesterday, when - O vote for $288,000 for the relief of refugees. camo up for consideration. The Colonial Secretary (The Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith) presided.
The Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell asked. Have we any record as to how long these refugees are with us. We cannot keep them forever. Do they come and go or are wo keeping them for years?
The Director of Medical Services) (The Hon. Dr. P. S, Selywn-Clarke). A careful record is kept of all refugees admitted to Government -·| camps. Their nomes, places of origin and occupations, etc., are kept on cards. Investigations are made as to whether their villages or towns are actually in the fighting zone. II: they are not, a sub-committee of the camp committee proceeds to mako arrangements to repairiate them. There is a turnover in tho camps every day.
The Hon. Mr. Dodwell,is it not a fact that when we had the scare in
the Colony refugees at Fanling dis- appeared entirely?
The Director of Medical Services —— I am sorry to say that is not so. Some did actually go back to China, but many were taken into the urban Break, including the Italian Convent
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The Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.—Are the sexes segregated or do the des- titutes produce more destituicat
The Director of Medical Services.--- The living huts are arranged on the basis of children, orphaned children, family huts and old derelicts, malé or female. With the exception of several hundred children transferred from Po Leung Kuk to the King's Park camp, the majority of the refugees have been here for only n short time. There are, of course, a number of Hongkong destitutes who cannot be sent back to Chinn.
The Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields. Have we any powers to stop them from coming to the Colony?
The Chairman.—I would like notice of that question. We have, of course, a quick way of getting rid of vagrants, but at present there are no laws to stop desillutes coming in except the $20.
The Hon. Mr. Shields—I always understood that under the agree ment under which we took over the Colony there should be no Inter- ference in the coming and going of Chinese. We are up against a very difficult problem with this influx, which may be with us for
long time.
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The Chairman.This question is At the moment being very carefully investigated by Government. have on officer working specially on it and he has just put up a plan which, I hope, will be brought into activity within the next few weeks. The Hon. Mr. Dodwell. Is it a faci hat a number of these refugees evade going to the camps and try to
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become vagrants?
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