CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7] — Page 429

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meant to reflect on the conduct of the Comittee

itself, he should be compelled either to support his charges or to withdraw them unreservedly. The Committee is an honorary body chosen annually from the most prominent and respectable gentlemen in the Colony: their names are published in the Chinese Press, for which the doings of the Po Leung Kuk (and some members of the Committee attend personally every day to all detail) are a constant source of copy. It is almost inconceiv- able that any single member of the Committee should risk his good name by countenancing "questionable proceedings" of any kind in the discharge of his duties; and practically impossible for such proceedings to be kept secret from the other members. Any suggestion of deliberate mal- practice would create the profoundest resentment, and occasion a demand for the most searching enquiry. I have no hesitation in stating my conviction that it would prove an unfounded insult.

It should not be forgotten that the Po Leung Kuk fills a place in the Government of the Colony

which can be filled by no mere Government official.]

The Committee works with an inside knowledge of t

the Chinese mind, and with a host of unofficial

correspondents in the Charitable Institutions of the interior of China; and even then merely makes

enquiries and gives advice, always with full

reasons. It takes no action except on the decision

of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. It its

standing is not maintained the Government must

tackle direct a task which it could not hope to perform with the efficiency that the advice and assistance of such a Committee, possessing the