Q. When were the cases?
A.--About the same time.
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Q.-Can you give us names or dates ?
A. I don't know personally myself, but in regard to this case I mention Mr. WONG SING-TUNG. He helped the girl out.
Q.-Have you seen the girl herself?
A.--Yes.
Q. Has she told you the story herself?
A. Yes, and her sister also, and Mr. CHow PING also.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.And Mr. WONG SING TUNG told you?
A.--Yes.
Q. And did he say it cost the girl $100?
A. No. Mr. WONG SING-TUNG did not say that, but the girl said it in his presence and in Mr. CHOW PING's presence also.
Q. Do you know how that money was supposed to be spent?
A. I do not know, but the way the brothel is carried on is open to very great temptation. The head mistress of the brothel never uses her name to the register as It is a very the owner of the house. They get an amuh to be the registered owner.
bad system because this woman can do what she likes with the girls. From what I hear when the girls are taken to be registered, there are some fees to be paid to the Clerks.
The CHAIRMAN.-Registration is quite free, there is no fee.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.—What fee is it?
A.-There is a fee to the clerk I hear of $2 or $5.
The CHAIRMAN. Who said so?
A. The girls said so.
Q.-You say that because they had not arranged the fees So MUI was detained?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you know that every girl who comes to the office has to be brought before the Registrar General ?
'A.--No, I did not know that.
Q. Do you know that the Registrar General is the person who detains the girl, and nobody else?
A.-No, I did not know.
Q. Do you know that it is the Registrar General who gives the order to send the girl to the Pó Léung Kuk, and nobody else?
A.--I don't know exactly. This brothel keeper told the girl that he had had to pay some fees.
Q-I want to bring that out clearly. Do you know that every girl is questioned personally by the Registrar General ?
A.—No.
Q. Are there any other cases ?
A.-No other cases.
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