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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 26 Larceny 13 Offences against Revenue 7 Unlawful Possession 2 Cutting and Wounding Assault 1 1 50Sixty-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 employment 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 afterwards 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
- K 33
2. Up to the 31st December, 1933, fifty boys had been ordered detention by Police Magistrates for the following offences:
Hawking
Larceny
Offences against Revenue
Unlawful Possession
Cutting and Wounding Assault
26
13
7
2.
1
1
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 Remnand 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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