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Q.-If the place were altered would it be suitable?
A.-No.
Q.-You mean to say that it is not possible to make it suitable for the purpose?
A.-No.
Honourable Ho KAL-The place is built after the fashion of Chinese shops, is it
A.-Yes, I think so.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-Have you gone through the building?
A.--Yes.
Honourable F. H. MAY.-Was not the principal objection to it the fact that the lower portion was to be rented as shops?
A. Yes. I said that it was a great risk.
The CHAIRMAN.-With regard to the Ordinance, you have seen that it is proposed, in that Ordinance, to have a permanent Committee, and an elective Committee. That is a slight difference from what has taken place hitherto.
A. Yes.
Q.--The working Committee have merely had old members of the Society who have helped them?
A.-Yes.
Q. Do you think it would be a good system to have a permanent Committee?
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A. Yes, I think so. You may have very good men to look after the affair, but some of them perhaps are very unwilling to serve in case anything happens. If it is every body's business it is nobody's business, and it is better to have a certain class of men, whom the Government have confidence in, to act as a permanent Committee.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-Can you give us an imaginary case of when a girl is sent to the Pó Léung Kuk? What happens? What is the mode of procedure? What takes place?
A.-I was never on the Committee.
Q.-Who are members of the Committee ?
A.-My brother is one.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-You never went to the Committee?
A.-No. I cannot devote my time to it. It takes a long time to arrive at the truth in cases sent to the Pó Leung Kuk, for the girls are coached and tell many lies. The directors simply ask the persons who are brought before them to tell the truth and promise to hand the girls back to their friends. I have known them sit sometimes from 7 o'clock in the evening until 1 o'clock in the morning.
Q.-You know where the girls are housed at present?
A: Yes.
Q.-Is it suitable?
A.-No.
The CHAIRMAN.-Do you think it is a proper thing to have young girls and old girls living together in the same rooms?
A.--I think not. I think some of those girls who are bad should be kept separate, as they often by their talk make the younger ones bad also.
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