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Q. Do you consider that a Committee of respectable Chinese gentlemen are an assistance in checking a crime like kidnapping?
A.-Certainly, I think they are a great assistance. They have done a great deal of good. I don't think anyone will deny that.
Q.-You think the Society has done good?
A. Yes.
Q.-You think that the detectives might be put under more thorough supervision? A.-I would not say that so much. They might be, but, it would be possible to get better men perhaps.
Q.-You are of opinion that the Society has done good?
A. Yes.
Q.-Is doing good?
A. Yes.
Q-Have you ever heard anything against the members of the Committee? A.-No.
Q-You have known members of the Committee of different years?
A.-I have now and again.
Q-Have they been men of respectability?
A. Yes.
Q.-Leading men among the Chinese community?
A.--Yes.
Q.-Have the Pó Léung Kuk hitherto received any encouragement from the Police to give them information ?
A.-That I cannot say.
Q.-You cannot tell whether the former Captain Superintendent of Police ever gave them any encouragement?
A.-I cannot say.
Q.
-Do you think it would be a good thing for the Pó Léung Kuk detectives to report to the Police-give daily reports?
A.-I don't think it is necessary. I think it would be a very good thing if the Pó Léung Kuk or their Secretary when a case of kidnapping was reported to them, forwarded a copy to the Police so that they might know.
Q.-All cases in which they received reports of kidnapping?
A. Yes.
Q.-Speaking from your long experience of 19 years, have you any suggestions to make to improve the present system?
A. That is about the only thing that I speak of, that the Police might know of a case when reported, and I think that it would be better that the prisoner should be taken straight to the Police Station.
Q.-Instead of to the Pó Léung Kuk ?
A. Yes, because there is never any trouble in getting a remand in a case if necessary. The prisoner would be taken before a Magistrate and remanded, and the parties injured, the persons kidnapped, could be detained in the Tung Wa Hospital.
Q-In many cases where the girl comes under the Ordinance she may be in charge of a woman who wishes to go to the Pó Leung Kuk with her and at that time there is no sign of evidence against that woman. There is nothing to show that she
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