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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND AUGUST, 1896.
Messrs. LEUNG PUI-CHI and YUNG KUNG-Pó consented to continue to serve as treasurers and were re-appointed accordingly.
Attached is a statement of the assets and liabilities of the Society and a declaration of the truth of it by Messrs. LEUNG PUI-CHI and WAI LONG-SHIAN, and two statements shewing the revenue and expenditure during the year. The balance to the credit of the fund was $28,133.40. Of this sun, $28,000 are on fixed deposit.
Messrs. TANG WING-SING and TÁM LUI-T'SUNG have once more kindly audited the accounts. A return is also attached showing briefly the results of the work done during the year.
Twelve meetings of the Permanent Board were held during the year.
Arrangements were entered into with the Tung Wa Hospital regarding the ground on which it was desired to erect the buildings for a Home and part of which was occupied by the Kwong Fuk Temple and by the hospital dispensary. The temple was pulled down and rebuilt on a portion of its former site and on a piece of ground purchased from the Government for a sum of $1,585.50. The dispensary has been enlarged and two storeys have been added to it to be used by the Pó Léung Kuk. The thanks of the Society are due to Mr. Ló CHI-TIN, the Chairman of the Tung Wa Hospital, and to the other Directors for their co-operation. The services of Mr. DENISON were engaged to draw up plans. for the new buildings, their internal arrangements being placed more immediately under the supervision of the elected Committee, the members of which devoted a great deal of time and trouble to the work. Work was commenced on the temple in September and up to the end of the year $2,000 had been expended on it. The new buildings of the Pó Leung Kuk were commenced in November, and it is hoped that it will be possible to enter into them during the current year.
At a meeting held on the 29th August it was resolved to engage a matron to be in charge of the inmates. Mrs. VICTOR was engaged on probation for one month, and at the end of that time her engagement was confirmed. She keeps her charges in good order and has given satisfaction.
During the year Mr. COUGHTRIE was appointed a Visiting Justice in place of Mr. THURBURN, and when Mr. COUGHTRIE left the Colony, Captain ANDERSON was appointed in his place. Mr WEI AYUK was also appointed a Visiting Justice, and he, Mr. Ho Fook and Captain ANDERSON visited the premises of the Society at regular intervals.
Before concluding, mention must be made of the Benevolent Societies at Canton, Macao, and other places without the hearty co-operation of which, it would be impossible to carry on effectively the work of the Society.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
President.
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Ho KAI, M.L.C., Vice-President.
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We, LEUNG PUI-CHI and WAI LONG-SHAN, members of the Board of Direction of the Pó Léung Kuk Incorporated Society, do solemnly and sincerely declare that the attached statement of the assets and liabilities of the above Society on the 31st December, 1895, marked A and signed with our names on the 20th day of July, 1896, is a true statement, and we make this solemn declaration conscien- tiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of "The Statutory Declarations Act. 1835."
LEUNG PUI-CHI.
WAI LONG-SHAN.
Declared by the declarants LEUNG PUI-CHI and WAI LONG-SHAN at Victoria, Hongkong, this 20th day of July one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six through the interpretation of SUNG SING of Hongkong, the said SUNG SING having been also first declared that he had truly, distinctly and audibly interpreted the contents of this document to the said declarants and that he would truly and faithfully interpret the declaration about to be administered unto them.
Before me,
A. SETH, J.P.
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