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Q.--What is your opinion of the Society?
A.--I think it is one of the most useful Societies ever founded in the Far East. It does very good benevolent work.
Q.-You think that it has done good benevolent work?
A.--Yes, in preventing kidnapping and protecting women and children. The. Society comes forward and rescues them from a great many evils and vices. It is a Society which, I should think, the English nation or any other nation would be proud to have.
Q.--What views do the Chinese take?
A--One and all are in favour of it.
Q.--You don't think that any of the Chinese community are opposed to it?
A.--Only those aiding and abetting evil doers in Hongkong. No man who is doing charitable work will disagree with it.
Q.--Then the Chinese are in favour of it?
A.--Greatly in favour.
Q.-Have you read this Ordinance (new draft Ordinance produced) ? *
A. I have read part of it.
Q.--You see the Ordinance intends to put into legal shape what is being actually done at present?
A.--Whether you put it into legal shape or not the Society is going on in the same style as laid down in the Ordinance.
Q.--This Bill is really introducing nothing new?
A.-Nothing new to me.
Q.-You are a Justice of the Peace.
A.--Yes, I have been one for more than 10 years.
Q. Where were you born?
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A.-In Hongkong.
Q.-You are a British subject?
A. Yes. I was born in 1849 and I have only lived out of Hongkong six years when I went to England.
Q.-You are Compradore of the Mercantile Bank ?
A. Yes.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-You told us just now that the Society has done and is doing a great deal of good work which we admit, and that the proposed Ordinance does not give anything more than you actually have to-day?
A.-Not that I know of.
Q.-And that even if the Ordinance were passed, it would not be placing you in any better position than you are to-day in doing good for these poor children?
A.-Either one way or another the Chinese would go on doing what they think is
right.
* See Appendix 28.
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