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IV. SPECIAL TUITION.
Selected Northern Chinese regular police are at present undergoing special tuition in Traffic duties.
V. DISCIPLINE.
The conduct of recruits was satisfactory on the whole. One European and four Cantonese recruits were dismissed for misconduct; one European and one Cantonese recruits were permitted to resign; and five Indian and ten Cantonese recruits were struck off as unsuitable for police duty.
Annexe C.
ANNUAL REPORT ON WORKING OF "STREET BOYS CLUB" 1926.
The Street Boys Club was instituted in April 1926 with a view to providing a home, honest employment, and regular food, to homeless Chinese boys under the age of 18, who otherwise would have slept in the streets, lived on their wits, and sooner or later got into trouble for hawking without licences, theft, and snatching.
Accommodation has been provided for the members at Police Headquarters, and each boy on joining has been granted a small sum from the Police Court Poor Box, by the 1st Police Magistrate, to enable him to purchase a suit of clothes. Each member pays a monthly subscription of 25 cents to the Club, has been given a free hawkers licence, and lent a small sum of money with which to start his business.
At the end of May the membership numbered 12, which had risen to 20 at the end of the year.
In July the Ying Wah College Authorities very kindly took the boys as free night school pupils. They have been attending nightly and have almost all obtained good school reports.
In October arrangements were made for boys to be supplied with 2 meals a day at a cost of 20 cents per diem, which they pay for themselves at the end of the month. This ensures their getting regular meals. At the end of the year permanent employment had been obtained for 9 boys, all of whom are doing well.
Towards the end of the year an appeal for funds was issued to various European firms and Chinese friends, who generously subscribed $2291.00.
This money will be chiefly used for the hire of new club premises somewhere near Police Headquarters, as owing to expansion at Police Headquarters, the present premises will soon have to be vacated.
It is significant that the average number of juvenile offenders in Victoria Gaol during the month of December has been 12 in past years, whereas it was only 3 in December 1926.
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IV. SPECIAL TUITION.
Selected Northern Chinese regular police are at present undergoing special tuition in Traffic duties.
V.-DISCIPLINE.
The conduct of recruits was satisfactory on the whole. One European and four Cantonese recruits were
were dismissed for misconduct one European and one Cantonese recruits were permitted to resign and five Indian and ten Cantonese recruits were struck off as unsuitable for police duty.
Annexe C.
ANNUAL REPORT ON WORKING OF "STREET BOYS CLUB"
1926.
The Street Boys Club was instituted in April 1926 with a view to providing a home, honest employment, and regular food, to homeless Chinese boys under the age of 18, who otherwise. would have slept in the streets, lived on their wits, and sooner or later got into trouble for hawking without licences, theft, and snatching.
Accommodation has been provided for the members at Police Headquarters, and each boy on joining has been granted a small sum from the Police Court Poor Box, by the 1st Police Magistrate, to enable him to purchase a suit of clothes. Each member pays a monthly subscription of 25 cents to the Club, has been given a free hawkers licence, and lent a small sum of money with which to start his business.
At the end of May the membership numbered 12, which had risen to 20 at the end of the year.
In July the Ying Wah College Authorities very kindly took the boys as free night school pupils. They have been attending nightly and have almost all obtained good school reports.
In October arrangements were made for boys to be supplied with 2 meals a day at a cost of 20 cents per diem, which they pay for themselves at the end of the month. This ensures their getting regular meals. At the end of the year permanent em- ployment had been obtained for 9 boys, all of whom are doing well.
Towards the end of the year an appeal for funds was issued to various European firms and Chinese friends, who generously subscribed $2291.00.
This money will be chiefly used for the hire of new club premises somewhere near Police Headquarters, as owing to expansion at Police Headquarters, the present premises will soon have to be vacated.
It is significant that the average number of juvenile offenders in Victoria Gaol during the month of December has been 12 in past years whereas it was only 3 in December 1926.
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