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The CHAIRMAN.-How long have you known the Pó Léung Kuk?
A.-I heard of it in San Francisco.
Q.-Have you known it since?
A. Yes.
Q.-What is your opinion with regard to its work? Do you think it has done
good?
A.—It has done a great deal of good in rescuing poor women and children from being kidnapped and taken away to become prostitutes.
Q.
What do you think the result would be without the Pó Léung Kuk ?
A. That is what I spoke to Dr. STEWART about. He said that the business of the Pó Léung Kuk would fall on the Government, but that the Government could not do it so well. I can fully confirm that opinion.
Q. Are the Chinese Community in favour of the Society?
A.-Most of them are strongly in favour of the Pó Léung Kuk,
Q.-Are some of them not in favour of it?
A.-I think so.
Q.-Who are these people?
A.—Well, you see, some of the Chinese have got more than one wife, whom they call concubines, and most of these concubines come from houses of ill fame, and those persons, I think, try to buy young girls and keep them and feed them until they grow up, and then try to sell them and send them away.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.--The concubines of the Chinese ?
A. Yes.
Q.-Those are the Chinese who are against the Pó Léung Kuk?
A. Yes.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-How many are there?
A.-I don't know.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-Do they aid and abet their concubines in doing these
things?
A. Yes.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-Have you been a member of the Committee of the Pó Léung Kuk.
A.-No.
Q.--Do the members, when they meet, sit in private, or is any one else present? A. They generally have a meeting in the evening in their own office of the Pó Léung Kuk.
Q.-Privately?
A.-Any one can attend-I suppose so.
Q.-You don't know?
A.-No.
Q.-You have not been at any of these meetings?
A.-No.
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