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necessary powers: but very many cases are dealt

with daily that do not go through the Home itself.

The Committee is the S.C.A's advisory board in

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such matters; cases are constantly daily

referred for advice; and the Police are in the

closest touch with the Institution and the community

at large frequently sends cases to it direct. The

Government checks every detail of the Institution

and of the Committee's work through the S.C.A.

The Committee keep in touch with charitable bodies

all over China, and not infrequently succeed in

checking a girl's statements and in finding her

parents or relations: when necessary girls are

escorted home through the assistance of these other

bodies. Some claimants to girls are permitted

after enquiry to keep them under bond: other girls are kept till they can be married from the Kuk

or till they are properly adopted

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under bond in

both cases, Every possible kind of case passes

through the hands of the Committee which sits daily-

including Sundays and brings to bear a kno-ledge

of Chinese life and methods of thought impossible

for a foreigner. The Committee works under

conditions of the greatest publicity, and bears the very highest reputation for integrity; it does work which is quite beyond the reach of any Government Department not so assisted.

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