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A.—About $600, I think, have been subscribed from the commencement. But there are no annual subscriptions; the Society receives votes from the Man Mò Temple. When the Society began there were no funds, and even the first two detectives declined to accept any salary or remuneration until the subscriptions had been raised, and then they took what the Society could allow them. When it was started there was no place to house these girls, and one of the wards in the Tung Wa Hospital was used to accom- modate the girls. The Tung Wa Hospital up to the present has supplied the money for the food and maintenance of the girls. The Government has only given $1,000, I believe.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD. From the items I see there is put down "amount borrowed" from the Man Mò Temple and Tung Wa Hospital?
A.-They put it down as borrowed, but, if they have not any money, they need not return it. When the Pó Léung Kuk is able to support itself, it will do so.
Honourable F. H. MAY.-Can you tell me why it is in such bad funds?
A.-Because they did not take the trouble to get funds.
Q.-They didn't take the trouble to hunt up subscriptions ?
A.-No.
Honourable Ho KAI.-The funds of the Man Mò Temple belong to the Chinese public, and the Chinese public every year subscribes to the Temple?
A. Yes, and they get an income out of the rents of their property.
Q.-Is it not the same thing as if annual contributions were made to take these funds and transfer them to the Pó Léung Kuk?
A. Yes.
The CHAIRMAN.-The Chinese Community have been anxious that the Pó Léung Kuk should be self supporting?
A. Yes.
Q.-Independent of the Tung Wa Hospital?
A.-Quite so.
Q.-The Man Mò Temple money is looked after by the Tung Wa Hospital ?
A. Yes.
Honourable F. H. MAY.-The Tung Wa Hospital has plenty of money?
A. Yes.
Q.--I don't quite understand why the Pó Leung Kuk does not support itself? A.-It is subscribed, to indirectly through the Tung Wa Hospital. People in
supporting the Tung Wa Hospital support the Pó Léung Kuk.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.There is no direct subscription to the Pó Léung Kuk?
A.-No.
Honourable T. II. WHITEHEAD.--Yes, I see there is one for $100.
The CHAIRMAN.-That must have been a very long time ago. The point I want to get at is that the Tung Wa Hospital have been anxious that the children should be moved out of the Hospital. When you were Chairman of the Tung Wa Hospital did you not ask that the children should be moved?
A. Yes.
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