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There is a new Committee of 12 each year:
but the retiring Committees do notlose all their
interest in the work. They come from all parts of the Colony proper, and are always ready to receive
and forward complaints, to give information and to make enquiries.
In addition, Chinese subscriptions support
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a force of 100 "District Watchmen", under the control
of the S.C.A.; they rank as police, but are appointed
and managed through a Chinese Committee, and deal
only with crime not merely statutory or municipal
offences. They are perhaps for this reason more in
the confidence of the people than are the regular
police, and one of their principal duties is the
detection of cases of kidnapping and of offences
against women and girls.
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The Tung Wa Hospital, the Confucian Society
and some temples maintain quite a large number of
schools mostly free and constantly press the
Government to further their efforts in vernacular
education. The point does not bear directly on the
muitsai question, but goes to show that the Chinese
will readily expend thought and effort on raising the
standard around them. The muitsai question is a very prominent one, and it is impossible that they should
have