Report of the Sub-Committee of the Hongkong Typhoon Relief Fund General Committee.
The Sub-Committee appointed on the 22nd September, 1906, met the same day, and steps were at once taken to ascertain the loss of boats by directing the sureties of the boatmen to report to the Tung Wa Hospital and by authorising the Hospital to advertise that claims for relief should be received at the Hospital; and the work of registering the claims for relief was immediately undertaken by the Hospital. It was also resolved that the Registrar-General and the Chinese members of the Sub-Committee should meet the boat builders and ascertain the possibility of getting boats built at an early date.
2. At a meeting held on the 26th September, it was resolved that the purchase or building of boats by the Committee was undesirable and impracticable; also that a grant equal to at least one-third of his loss should be made to each boatman upon the condition that he should get to work as soon as possible, condition to be enforced by sureties.
3. On the 1st October, an Investigating Committee consisting of twelve members was appointed to enquire into the claims for relief. They commenced work at once and on the 16th October reported to the Sub-Committee that 1768 applications had been received and that the preliminary enquiries had been completed in all but 250 cases, and recommended that in 201 cases in which the final enquiries had been made, relief to the amount of $27,436 should be granted. The distribution of relief was thereupon commenced simultaneously with the completing of the enquiries, and from time to time as the work progressed, the recommendations of the Investigating Committee...
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