AnnualReport-1934 — Page 321

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64. Conduct.-Police Watchmen: Discipline throughout the year was fair. There were three hundred and sixty-three de- faulters as against three hundred and eighty-four during 1933.

Special Guards: Forty-seven defaulters as against thirty during 1933.

Russian Contingent: Twelve defaulters as against sixteen during 1933.

Wei Hai Wei Contingent: Forty-eight defaulters as against thirty-three during 1933.

MENDICANTS.

65. During the year, 665 mendicants were dealt with by the Police Department. Of this number 295 were charged and con- victed before the Police Magistrates. Of the numbers dealt

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In addition to the above there were eighty persistent and confirmed beggars banished from Hong Kong for a period of ten years.

Of the total numbers sent away, forty-six were traced as having been sent away more than once in the same year.