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on the 5th floor of the School premises.

In view of this, the

teachers asked Sister Leung to arrange for them a meeting to

see Sister Wu. Sister Leung tried but finally informed the

teachers that Sister Wu was being busily engaged. At length,

the teachers asked to contact Sister Wu on the phone, and Sister

Leung helped to make the contact. On the phone, Sister Wu told

one of the teachers that if the teachers wanted to make an

appointment with her, they must explain to her in writing why they

wanted to see her, and then she would consider the appointment.

When the teachers said that they had already talked to Sister Leung

about the serious problem the day before, Sister Wu replied that

any communication between her and Sister Leung had nothing to do

with the teachers. She added that the two teachers could not

represent all the other teachers of the school. Under such

circumstances, the two teachers decided to have a meeting with

all their colleagues for the reason that many of them only had

some knowledge of the financial irregularities, but not at all

in details. At the meeting, individual teachers reported what

they had uncovered. Although some of the allegations could not

be verified, they agreed unanimously that the problem was a

serious one. They decided to sign a joint letter, formally

asking for a meeting with the Mother Superior, and the School

Management Committee on April 11. And they also elected three

representatives, namely Mr. Chan Chung-ling, Miss Fan Mei-yung

and Mr. Shek Kang-chuen to be their spokesmen at future meetings

with the school authority over the financial irregularities.

3. Meeting with Management Committee on April 11

In the afternoon of April 8, Sister Leung telephoned

to tell Chan Chung-ling that the Mother Superior and the Management

Committee would meet the teachers on April 11. At 9 a.m. that day,

a meeting between the two parties started in the staff room of

the school.

Present were all the teaching and clerical staff,

Sister Wu, Mother Superior, Sister Leung, Principal and Supervisor,

Sister Fan Ling-chi and Sister Lau Mui-kwai, Managers of the

Management Committee, and Father Hong Kin-cheung, advisor of the

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