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Q. You were Police Magistrate?
A.—I was appointed Magistrate at the end of 1880, and probably had no voice in the matter.
The CHAIRMAN.-You have brought attention to the matter lately?
A. The case I mentioned I reported to the Government.
Q. During the eleven years you have been Magistrate have you ever drawn attention to the matter before?
A. To the Registrar General sometimes I should say.
Q-In what way ?
A. In this particular way.
Q.-What is that ?
A.--No, I am not sure that I have drawn attention to the matter before.
Q.-During eleven years you have only found it necessary to call attention to the Pó Léung Kuk once, and that since this Committee was appointed?
A. Yes, I think so. I cannot remember it.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD. You may have done so verbally?
A. I have never changed my opinion at all. I have always been of the same opinion. It is not a matter in which it would be appropriate to thrust forward my opinion, considering that much better people than myself have considered the Society advisable. When I went into the question of Chinese brothels I expressed any opinion, I said that the impression left on my mind was how very little indeed all our efforts for the protection of women and children are effective.
The CHAIRMAN.--Would you abandon them on that account?
A. Certainly not.
Honourable Ho KAI-You are not aware of the cause which led to the establish- ment of the Pó Léung Kuk ?
A.-I am not, except so far as they have been stated by the Registrar General. I have no knowledge of them myself. I have been asked to express my views on privileged occasions on the Pó Léung Kuk, and I have expressed them.
has?
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-How many members do you think the Society
A.--I have no knowledge.
Q.—Would you be surprised if you were told that there were not more than 100 ? A. I have no idea about the matter.
Q.-Would you regard it as representative of the Chinese if there are not more than 60 or 70 members? Would you call that a representative Society?
A.-Considering the leading men of which the Pó Leung Kuk is composed, I should certainly regard it as an influential and representative Society.
Q.--Can you account for the number of members being so limited?
A. I have no knowledge of the numbers.
The CHAIRMAN.You know some members of the Pó Léung Kuk?
A. Individually.
Q. Are they eminently respectable men?
A.----Certainly.
Honourable Ho KAI.--Have you ever heard of any charges against them? A.-No.
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