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26 No.
1902
HONGKONG.
REPORT OF THE PÓ LEUNG KUK SOCIETY, FOR THE YEAR 1901.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.
The following ten gentlemen were elected to act as the Managing Committee for the year :-
KÚ FAI-SHAN. CH'AN KING-WAN. KAN T'IN-HING. CHÚAN PÓ-TUNG.
CH'AN WING-Ü.
LAU HING-SÜN.
LAI SUN-HING.
UE PIK-UE. CH'AN KIT-FÚ. WONG SHIU-TÓNG.
Mr. LAU WAI-CH'ÜN and Mr. WEI LONG-SHAN were appointed to act as Treasurers. A statement of the Assets and Liabilities of the Society and a declaration by the Treasurers, and two statements shewing the working account and revenue and expenditure during the year are attached. The balance to the credit of the Society on the 31st December was $15,217.19. The actual sum spent by the Working Committee on the work of the Society was $6,640.36 as compared with $6,257.90 in 1900. Despite this increase the Society has been able during the year to pay off an overdraft of $1,302.01. This satisfactory result is due to the liberal subscriptions received from various sections of the Chinese Community. The Man Mó Temple subscribed $1,350, the lessee of the two Chinese theatres $1,000, and various guilds subscribed $4,473.50.
Messrs. SHUM KUN-SAI and WONG HOI-PANG have kindly audited the accounts.
The Visiting Justices during the year have been Captain ANDERSON, the Honourable WEI A YUK and Mr. CH'AN FUK.
The number of women and children admitted into the Home during the year was 389 being 52 more than in 1900.
A return attached to this report shews what steps were taken with regard to them. The Society is indebted, as in former years, to the various Benevolent Societies of Canton, Macao and other places, for their co-operation in restoring women and children to their relatives, and for their assistance in other directions.
The inmates of the Home receive regular elementary instruction daily, and are encouraged to occupy their time with needlework. Many of them are able to earn a little pocket-money by making up clothing for Chinese shops.
The report of Dr. THOMSON on the sanitary condition of the buildings and on the health of the inmates is attached.
The accommodation provided in the Home is at times insufficient.
A. W. BREWIN, President.
HO KAI,
Vice-President.
We, LáU WAI-CH'UN and WEI LONG-SHAN, members of Board of Direction of the Pó Léung Kuk Incorporated Society, do solemnly and sincerely declare that the attached statement of the Assets and Liabilities of the above Society on the 31st December, 1901, marked “A” and signed with our names on the 5th February, 1902, is a true statement, and we make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of "The Statutory Declaration Act, 1835."
LA WAI-CH'ÜN. WEI LONG-SHÁN.
Declared by the declarants LAG WAI-CH'UN and WEI LONG-SHÁN, at Victoria, Hongkong, this fifth day of February, 1902.
Before me,
G. H. WAKEMANN, J.P.,
Victoria.
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