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due to the defective eyesight of the coxswain who has been invalided from the service. In four cases the accidents were unavoidable with no blame attached to anyone and in three cases the Water Police Staff was found free from blame.
CRUISING LAUNCHES.
4. During the year Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 Launches underwent an annual survey and overhaul. No. 1 Launch is very old and cannot be counted as fully efficient as she is suitably only for "Protected Waters." Nos. 2, 3 and 4 Launches are in good condition and their wireless gives satisfactory service.
HARBOUR LAUNCHES.
5. The Harbour Launches Nos. 5, 6, 8 and 14 are in a satisfactory condition. Nos. 7 and 9 are old and their efficiency is rapidly decreasing. They have no searchlights.
MOTOR BOATS.
6. Motor Boats Nos. 10, 11 and 12 continue to give useful service. A new No. 11 Motor Boat has been supplied and is giving satisfactory service. The engine of No. 12 Motor Boat has been condemned and a new Diesel Engine is to be installed. This should greatly increase her efficiency. No. 10 Motor Boat is old and her efficiency is decreasing.
MUSKETRY.
7. The Chinese Deck Staff of the Cruising Launches are given regular practices with revolvers and Greener Guns, All Winchester rifles were in a bad condition through age and were replaced by Greener Guns during 1933. A half yearly Vickers Machine Gun Course was fired on the four Cruising Launches. Nos. 2, 3 and 4 Launches fired one Three-pounder Gun Course during the year. Good results were obtained in
both these courses.
Annexe D.
REMAND HOME FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS.
1. The Home was opened for the reception of boys on November 20th. Mr. C. P. Fallon (retired from the Hong Kong Police) who had been appointed Superintendent, had given much thought and attention to the fitting up and pre- paration of the Home. He has under him one Chinese Lance Sergeant and seven Chinese constables to maintain discipline in the Home. Some of these Police officers give instruction to the inmates in elementary reading and writing. Steps are also in hand for the engagement of an instructor to teach the boys basket making.
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2. Up to the 31st December, 1933, fifty boys had been ordered detention by Police Magistrates for the following offences:
Hawking Larceny
26
13
Offences against Revenue
7
2
1
1
Unlawful Possession Cutting and Wounding Assault
50
Sixty-six boys were sent to the Home from different Police Stations, but twenty-six of these are included in the fifty who were dealt with by the Magistrates. The boys are given em- ployment in laundry work, wood cutting, games and physical drill.
3. There is a Sick Bay in the Home but no need for its use has occurred. A Medical Officer pays regular visits to the Home. On many occasions, boys who were admitted have stated that their parents were dead, and that they had no relatives. After a few days in the Home and as the result of enquiries made by the Probation Officers, the same boys have admitted that they had parents or relatives in the Colony and they have later been handed back to their homes. Four typical cases are set out below:-
(1) Ng Kan, aged 11. Did not know his surname, and when admitted to the Home stated that his parents were dead and that he had no relations. After being detained for three days, he disclosed to the Probation Officer that his father named Wan To was a licensed hawker with a stall at Tsung Sau Street East, and that his mother was living with his father at 15, Po Leung Kuk New Street, 3rd floor. The father, when informed of his son's detention, stated that the boy had been missing from home for two months and that though he had hired a man for twenty cents a day to look for him, the child's whereabouts remained unknown. The father identified the boy at the Remand Home on November 28th, and he was after- wards restored to his father before the Police Magistrate (Kowloon).
(2) Cheng Hoi, aged 10. When admitted to the Home, this boy told the same story as Ng Kan, but after three days' detention he told the Probation Officer that his mother was still alive and lived at No. 13, Square Street, 2nd floor. When his mother Lee Sam So was called upon,
she said that she
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