CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12] — Page 384

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This return relates to cases of detention in the Kuk only. cases which come into the Courts being dealt with in the Report of the Captain Superintendent of Police for 1919, from which the following extract is teken:-

Serious Offences under the Women and Girls

Protection Ordinance.

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Cases

Convicted

Discharged

123.

107.

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A long-established and highly-respected Institution of this nature, with which the best Chinese regard it as an honour to be connected, must command far more influence than any new body instituted at the request of the Goverment and I think, therefore, that the establishment of such a body would not serve any useful purpose and might indeed do harm by appearing to suggest that the Government distrusted the Po Leung Kuk. I have considered the question of asking the Po Leung Kuk to form local sub-committees but am advised that this would not be desirable. The members of the Po Leung Kuk Committee are drawn from all parts of the Colony and do not entirely sever their connection with the work at the close of their term of office with the result that the purview of the Committee extends over the whole of the Colony, the small- ness of which renders centralization easy and leaves it effective. The appointment of special sub-committees might do harm by lessening the interest taken in such matters by the members and ex-members of the Committee as a whole.

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While, however, the ex-members of the Committee are always ready and even anxious to receive and forward

information, it must be borne in mind that their ideas of "ill-treatment" do not necessarily agree with the typically

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