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Q.-There is no means of separating them now?
A.-No I think not, but I have not been there for a long time.
Q.-When you were there last, were they separated ?
A.-No.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-From the information you received from your brother you state that the directors sometimes sit from seven in the evening until one o'clock in the morning. Do they all sit thus, or does one individual ?
A.-I don't know.
The CHAIRMAN. They make their enquiries at night and two at least have to sign a letter which they send to me in reporting any case.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-Do they investigate it together?
The CHAIRMAN.-Yes, generally more than two.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD (to witness).-Have they ever found out the detectives squeezing or extracting money from women? Have the Committee of the Pó Léung Kuk ever been able to charge one of their detectives with squeezing? Has there ever been a case?
A.-Never to my knowledge.
Q.-You have never heard of it?
A.-I have never heard of a case.
too, you know, but there is no proof.
There is talk of ordinary detectives squeezing
Honourable Ho KAI-You don't know of a case in which it was proved against any detective of the Pó Léung Kuk?
A.-No. If they are suspected they are dismissed.
The CHAIRMAN.-You know that the Pó Léung Kuk applied to the Government for a grant of money?
A.-My brother told me so.
Q. As a member of the Chinese community what are your views on that?
A.-I think the Government ought to give them as much as they can.
They do a good deal for the Government in protecting their Chinese citizens, and the Chinese contribute the greater portion of taxation to the Government. This is not a Society that works for its own ends but for the Chinese residents in Hongkong and from the out-ports.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-A great many of the Chinese who come from China-from Canton and elsewhere-are brought here for the purpose of being shipped away somewhere else. Don't you think that it is the duty of the Government of China rather than the Government of Hongkong to support this Society?
A.-I have no experience of the Chinese Government. I have come here to talk about the British Government. We have the power to protect the weak ones and we are not going to allow them to jump into the fire if we can save them. The Chinese Govern- ment can do what they like but this is a British Colony. If people come into British waters, they come under British law, and we ought to protect them.
Q.-Have you any idea of the amount of money already subscribed ?
A.-I think it is about $30,000.
Q.-I don't mean that special fund, I mean the annual subscriptions since the Society was started ?
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