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HONGKONG.

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No. 19

REPORT OF THE PÓ LEUNG KUK SOCIETY FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1894.

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.

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R.G.O. No. 5.

REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

HONGKONG, 8th April, 1895.

SIR, I have the honour to forward for your Excellency's information the report of the Pó Léung Kuk society for the nine months ending the 31st December last, together with the accounts and a statement of the assets and liabilities of the society with a declaration of the truth of it made before a Justice of the Peace by two of the members of the Permanent Board.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

His Excellency

SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.

REPORT.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary and Registrar General.

The Pó Leung Kak Incorporation Ordinance, as amended by direction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, came into force on the 31st March, 1894.

The following ten gentlemen were elected to act as the Managing Committee for the year :-

TONG WAN-CHIU.

CHAU SIU-KI.

IP CHUK-KAI.

LI SAU-HIN

CH'AN KING-TING.

FUNG WA-CHÜN.

WAI MIN-CHAI.

KU FAI-SHIAN,

HUI SHUN-CHÜN.

WONG UI-CHUN.

Messrs. LEUNG PUI-CI and YUNG KUNG-Pó were appointed Treasurers for the Society, and the Managing Committee receive from them cach month sufficient to meet the monthly disburseinents.

The funds of the society are at present ou deposit with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, as no more suitable investment has offered itself.

Attached is a statement giving briefly the work done during the last nine months of 1894. In each case of marriage or adoption ample security has been required. Three of the wards died during the year.

On the commencement of the plague the wards were removed from the apartments occupied by them in the Tung Wa Hospital to the second floor of three houses in New Street. Acting on the advice of the Colonial Surgeon, the Tung Wa Hospital has made use of the apartments formerly