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Q.-Did you send the girl back or to the Registrar General? A.-We were simply under the control of the Government.
Q.-Did
Q. Did you send the case to the Governor then?
A.-No, we had full power to deal with it.
Q.-You did not refer the case to the Registrar General?
A.-No.
Q.--You dealt with it yourself?
A. Yes.
Q. And the investigation was carried on by the Chairman or Vice-Chairman and submitted to the full board on the Sunday following and then the girl was dealt with in accordance with what was arranged at that meeting?
A. Yes.
Q. And generally the recommendations of the Chairman or Vice-Chairman were carried out?
A. Yes.
Honourable Ho KAI.-Without any reference to the Registrar General at all?
A. Yes. That was before the Ordinance for the protection of women and children was passed.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-You say you read this Ordinance?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you know that by the Ordinance now where a case is investigated the decision of the majority will be the decision of the Board? That is under Section 11. Do you think that is an improvement or otherwise?
votes.
A.—I think it is an improvement. All things should be decided by the majority of
Q.-Irrespective of what the Registrar General-the Chairman-should say on the
subject?
A.—I think that all questions should be decided by the majority.
Honourable Ho KAI.--You don't know the members of the Tung Wa Hospital?
A.-I know some of them.
Q.-Members of the Tung Wa Hospital are as undefined as those of the Pó Léung Kuk? You don't know them all?
A.—I think it would be impossible to know all of them.
Q.-There is no record to show who are really members?
A.-I think they have records.
Q.-Yes, of the subscribers but not of the original members.
A.I think they have a list of all the members of the Committee.
Q.-You were in the Colony when the movement was started to establish the Pó Léung Kuk?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you know the reasons for such a movement?
A. Yes, by establishing it they thought that they could assist the Government in preventing kidnapping and helping women.
Q.-Two objects?
A. Yes, to suppress kidnapping, and assist and protect women.
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