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Honourable Ho KAI.-How would you know whether the man is suspected of being a kidnapper or not?
A. It is not their business to know.
Q.-Then how are they to assist the Government?
A. That is for the Magistrate to decide.
Q.-You would exercise judicial functions through the detectives?
A.-The detective does nothing but give the man to the Police. Suppose he finds a girl crying on the steamer; he enquires and hands the man over to the Police.
Q.-Is not that investigation?
A. He would have to ask a few questions of course.
Q.-That is investigation, is it not? The Committee of Pó Léung Kuk only put questions?
A.-I don't know what they have done but they have no business to do anything of that kind before the case is brought before the Magistrate. As to the detective he is bound to ask certain questions of the party before he knows what the case is.
Honourable F. H.. MAY.-I take it that he means that the detectives of the Pó Léung Kuk should not do anything more than the Police can do. The Police cannot keep a man in the Police Barracks until they find out whether the man is guilty or not. If the Police arrest a man they have to put him on the charge sheet or discharge him.
Honourable Ho KAI-You have no objection to the permanent Committee being appointed if it is understood that they can be removed if anyone of them misconducts himself?
A.-Certainly.
The CHAIRMAN.-You have been acquainted with the Pó Léung Kuk Committees for years I suppose?
A. Yes.
Q. And you consider them representative men of the Chinese community?
A. Yes, I think so.
Q-And respectable men?
A. Yes.
Q.-With large business connections?
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A. Yes, they must be respectable before they can connect themselves with the Tung Wah Hospital or the Pó Leung Kuk.
Q.-It has not been very easy to get people to serve on these Committees ?
A.--No.
Q.-They haven't been eager to serve?
A.-No, that is why I say the appointment should be made by the public and not by the limited number of members of the Pó Léung Kuk-there may be very few of them.
Q.-They have found the duties onerous?
A.-Rather complicated.
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