CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 802

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difficulties; they would only be possible with Chinese 00-

operation and our trouble now is that we know that the

Chinese will not co-operate.

As regards (d). Everybody knows that any Chinese

is at liberty to apply to the S.0.A. the point is what is

to happen on the application. When I made the suggestion,

I thought that the S.C.A. would be able to place the girls

with employers. "We know now that he won't. No one will

venture to employ them for fear of losing face with his

Ranm community. There is no particular law in including the

clause that "girls between 12 and 18 should apply to S.C.A.

who will take such steps as seem to him best, but you must

understand that it will be mere window-dressing as he won't

be able to take any steps, unless in some rare cases he is

able to get some missionary body to look after a girl.

(e) is a worse trouble. The Chinese opposition

means that, unless we give them a chance to set out their

position clearly and go some way to meet them, the Po Lung

Kuk will refuse to have anything to do with the girls.

We can't force them. The Kuk is a purely Chinese institutia

run by the Chinese with the S.C.A. to advise and supervise.

If we try to force them to do anything, the Committee of

Management will resign and no one will join a new Committee.

This means that an institution of great value will cease to

operate. "'e cannot work it as a Government institution

anything like so well as the Chinese do: and we cannot work

it at all without the co-operation of their Committees (the

Tung W, District Watchman etc) which will not be given.

If we refrain from trying to impose by law on the

Kuk duties which it won't perform, it may be all right. In

cases of real ill-treatment (on which subject the Chinese are

just as sound as we are, though their views of what is ill-

treatment