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Honourable Ho KAI.-They are not really Pó Léung Kuk detectives, but they are persons who impersonate Pó Léung Kuk detectives. We had a case recently.
The CHAIRMAN.-You think that the Pó Léung Kuk ought to be encouraged to do its work?
A. I think so.
Q.-With little older men on the Committee?
A. That is only my own suggestion. If there are proper men to work the Society, it is no use having so many. People do not like to join the Pó Léung Kuk because they have too much to do.
Honourable Ho KAI.-Don't you think it would be a good thing to have a permanent Committee consisting of older men like yourself and Mr. WAI YUK?
A. It would be a benefit to the Pó Léung Kuk. For instance some of the Committee now are merely salesmen, and what do they know of the management.
The CHAIRMAN.-Some of the Committee are?
A. Yes, some of the hongs do not like to go, so they send a salesman.
Q.--You think it would be a good thing to have a permanent Committee?
A. Yes, but it depends on what kind of men you have. You must have a proper Chairman to supervise the thing.
Honourable Ho KAI.-Have you any objection to the Registrar General being appointed Chairman ?
A.-I think that is very good.
Q.-Have you any objection to the representative of the Chinese being Vice- president?
A. No, a man who understands English and knows how to work it properly.
Q. And five or six members who are old residents here, men like Mr. War YUK, to be on the permanent Committee?
A. Yes.
The CHAIRMAN.-You think that the Chinese are in favour of the Pó Leung Kuk?
A. Yes but I tell you candidly the Pó Léung Kuk interfere too much.
Ilonourable Ho KAI-I think you had an intimation that the girl who was to have been TSAU KUNG-WAN'S concubine, was got by an ex-Committee man? Would you be surprised to hear that she was married instead to a man named WONG NGOK TING?
A.-I heard quite a different story the day before yesterday.
The CHAIRMAN.Do you know that it is utterly untrue? that she is married to a man named WONG NGOK TING? *
A.-I don't know.
Honourable C. P. CHATER. Then had this ex-Committee man anything to do with it?
The CHAIRMAN.-Nothing whatever to do with it.
The Committee then adjourned.
* See Appendix 38 (II).
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