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Mr. Ho Fook called..
The CHAIRMAN.-You are assistant compradore in Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.?
Witness.-Yes.
Q.-You are a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong?
A. Yes.
Q.-Are you acquainted with the Pó Leung Kuk Society?
A. Yes.
Q.-How long have you known it?
A. Since I joined the Registrar General's Office, in 1883 I think it was.
Q. -Who was Registrar General at that time?
A.-Mr. RUSSELL. I joined in his time.
Q.-You were there with Mr. RUSSELL and Dr. STEWART?
A. Yes, and with yourself.
Q-I was Acting Registrar General then?
A. Yes.
Q.-You have known the Society since 1883?
A. Yes.
Q.-Then you
have known something of its working?
A. Yes, I was brought into contact with its working.
Q.-What is your opinion with regard to the work which it has accomplished?
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A.-I think it has done a good work. It has been the means of bringing bad characters to justice and rescuing lots of women, who would have led immoral lives if it had not been for the Society.
Q.-What do you think would be the result if the Pó Léung Kuk were abolished?
A. The Government would have to find a Home for the women and the means of rescuing thein, and I don't think they could do the work as well as the Society is doing it.
Q.- Why?
A.-Because the Chinese can find things out more easily when they are so closely in contact with the people, hich the Government cannot very well do.
Q.--Are the Chinese
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pmmunity in favour of the Society?
A. Yes, the respects le class are.
Q-Do you know of
A.-Those who obje such people in some way
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any people who object to it?
are either kidnappers, or brothel-keepers, or connected with They, of course, would like to see this Society abolished so that they might act with ut check.
Q. You say you remember Dr. STEWART when in the Registrar General's Office?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you remember him ever having spoken to the Pó L'ung Kuk Committee about putting the Society on a satisfactory footing?
A. Yes, he often mentioned it.
Q.-- Can you remember what he said?
A.-He used to see Mr. LI TAK-CH'EUNG, who took an interest in it, nearly every morning.
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