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necessary powers: but very many cases are dealt
with daily that do not go through the Home itself.
The Committee is the S.C.A's advisory board in
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such matters; cases are constantly daily
referred for advice; and the Police are in the
closest touch with the Institution and the community
at large frequently sends cases to it direct. The
Government checks every detail of the Institution
and of the Committee's work through the S.C.A.
The Committee keep in touch with charitable bodies
all over China, and not infrequently succeed in
checking a girl's statements and in finding her
parents or relations: when necessary girls are
escorted home through the assistance of these other
bodies. Some claimants to girls are permitted
after enquiry to keep them under bond: other girls are kept till they can be married from the Kuk
or till they are properly adopted
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under bond in
both cases, Every possible kind of case passes
through the hands of the Committee which sits daily-
including Sundays and brings to bear a kno-ledge
of Chinese life and methods of thought impossible
for a foreigner. The Committee works under
conditions of the greatest publicity, and bears the very highest reputation for integrity; it does work which is quite beyond the reach of any Government Department not so assisted.
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