CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921 — Page 210

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There is a new Committee of 12 each year:

but the retiring Committees do not lose all their

interest in the work. They come from all parts of

the Colony proper, and are always ready to receive

and forward complainta, to give information and to make enquiries.

In addition, Chinese subscriptions support

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a force of 100 *District Watchmen", under the control

of the S.C.A.; they rank as police, but are appointed

and managed through a Chinese Committee, and deal

only with crime not merely statutory or municipal

offences. They are perhaps for this reason more in

the confidence of the people than are the regular

police, and one of their principal duties is the detection of cases of kidnapping and of offences

against women and girls.

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The Tung Wa Hospital, the Confucian Society and some temples maintain quite a large number of

school s

and constantly press the mostly free Government to further their efforts in vernacular

education. The point does not bear directly on the muitsai question, but goes to show that the Chinese will readily expend thought and effort on raising the standard around them. The muitsai question is a very prominent one, and it is impossible that they should

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