CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12] — Page 508

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Mr. Smith "who

wever

recupy

the Convent

complained of its cxistence.

Of course they did not complain to the Government,

but for

tue

as it was not for them

to make the complaint.

I have taken notice of

Every year

I made

the inconvenience

my pastoral visit to the Convent; but judging by the disregard with which we were

treated in other and similar matters

in

I thought it was better to suffer paticuce and even at the cost and inconvenience of the Establishment

W. Smith gree on

saying

"It was

U

no annoyance to them and hat

it been, I have it from themselves

"

they could have requested that the examination inight have been

could

"conducted elsewhere." They have requented but my experience of the past

that their request

shows

would not have been complied with

and we thought it better to bear with patience than to be repulsed

we were in other similar cases.

If

the Government of Hong Kous had

for

the

arry proper consideration inmates never to have put the examination

the Convent they ought

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room for prostitutes opposite to the Convent and schools. "That it was "no annoyance to them," a man

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