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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1930.

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.

SOCIETY SECRETARY DENIES RUMOURS.

cares

Committee Lo report on the I wish to sponk to you. I have measures required for the institu- tion of Juvenile Courts. The Society has submitted to the Government a draft Bill which indicates the measures that we think necessary.

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The Government is also taking active steps to secure the early institution of an Industrial Home MUI TSAI PROBLEM. for boys. It is a sound economic proposition to take special care That the Hongkong Society for of the Juvenile Offender. The the Protection of Children neither child who comes into contact with knows nor

what motive the adult offender is easily in- prompted the Home Government in fuenced by example, and if im- wasprisoned tends to lose his fear of Auggesting its formation, definitely affirmed by Mfr. T: M. prison, and may grow up to swell Hazlerigg the new

tary, the numbers of the criminal clasa, Secretary when speaking at the annual The figures for the year 1929 show meeting of the Society, held under that of 985 boys who came before the presidency of Sir Shouron the Magistrates, 172 had previous Chow, in the City Hall yesterday. ly appeared in Court. In 1929 no fewer than 181 boys and Ŏ girls under 16 years of age were aent to prison.

Sir Shounon Chow in his ad dresa referred to the progress of the Society during its first year, and spoke of the satisfactory financini position which it enjoy- ed.

Supporting him were the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Hon. Mr. S. W. Tao, Mr. T. J. Prior (late Secretary), Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg and Mr. T. N. Chau.

The Year Reviewed. The President in proposing the adoption of the Report and Balance Sheet, said :-You will recollect that the Society was formed only at the end of last January, and when you review the work which has been done during the period covered by the Report I would nak you to bear In mind that the Society was an entirely new Society and that we have to learn to walk before we can rum.

At the Constituent Meeting the founders adopted a constitution which defined in general terma the Alma and Obinets of the Society: there you will and print- ed on the last page of the report. The methods of achieving those alma

were not laid down. The first tasks of the Excentive Com- mittee were therefore to deride the methods by which the aims of the Society would best be achieved, and to collect the funds necessary for carrying out the work.

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Probation System.

heard two suggestions about the Society. Ono was that the forma- tion of the Society was a mere "eye-wash" to help the Home Government to counter the agita- tion in England concerning the mui trai system.. Aa to this, 1 believe I shall be voicing the unanimous opinion of our moni- bers when I say that this Society neither knows nor cares

what motive netunted the Home Goy- ernment in suggesting its forms- tion. The members of the Society. at their first meeting in this hall, adopted a Constitution which gives to the Society the widest possible sphere of activity in the interests of children. In that sphere of activity the Society is moving and will continue to move according to its conscience and free from all Government control.

"Mui Taal" Problem. The Society is not an "Anti- mul taal Society." There already We feel that much

an expense exists

organisation whose might be saved and much good activities are limited to that done by binding over many of work. In the matter of mui tsai, those youthful offenders and ap the Society has ranged itself on pointing probation officers who the side of the law and has dis- would keep them under observa-tributed leaflets in which atton- tion, advise them and help them to lead honest lives. We bellera that by the general adoption of this system of probation much expense might be saved in the way of gnol accommodation. It has, in England, resulted in the cloning of many gaolo.

The Society has prepared and printed leaflets framed to inform the public of the Society's alms, and of the things which constitute offences against children accord- in to our laws, and through the medium of the District Watch Committer, and of the Society'a Inspector, over 2,000 of these leaflets have already been dis- tributed in the more denanly populated parts of the town.

Financial Position. Turning to finance. I need only say that we started the tenth month of our existence with the very satisfactory balance of over $20,000. The expenses of the first nine months have been very small, being slightly under $1, 400. For the ensuing year they will necessarily be much higher, As there will be л full year's salary for onc Inspector and possibly part of a year's salary for another. Also the cost of relief work will necessarily be greater as the number of cases increases,

ex-

in a called to offences in con-. nexion with mui tea. Further, if any case concerning a mui tsai is brought to the Society's notice, it will champion the cause of that mut toai just as it would cham- pios the cause of any neglected or -treated child.

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The second suggestion which I have heard in that the Society And unnecessary and will nothing to do. The Report talle you what the Society has already done in the way, of the investign- tion and treatment of cases, and In the promotion of legislation for the belter treatment of Juvenile Offendera.

Child Beggars.

over-

May 1 suggest one or two other matters which occur to me as de- manding attention. There is the problem of the action to be taken is to child beggars. This is a different matter and will probably need special legislation. There is the problem of the prevalent crowding in ill-ventilated houses, with the inevitable concomitant of a high incidence of tuberculosis among children. And out of this has arisen the further problem of the provision of Sanatoria where child sufferers can receive the requisite Institutional treat-

ment.

And here is one more problem. The report of the Inspector Gon- eral of Police for the year 1929 states that during that year the police found in the streets and 1,861 elsewhere the boules of children, which is three times the European population of the Peak at the last census:

what

a pitiful state of affairs!

An appeal for support Wha minde to a very limited number cf persons, and so generous war the response that by the end of March over $15.000 had been contributed. I might say that practically every person appealed to contributed to the Society- Mr. Prior,

one of our joint which seems a clear indiention | Honorary Secretarios, has that the public is keenly interest preased his desire to resign. The ed in the welfare of children. work necessarily entails great

Work of Inspector.

demands on the Secretary's time, and I wish to express our thanks The Executive Commitice con- to Mr. Prior for all that he has sidered 忧

essential that the done for the Society during the Society should, AB 8001 as | past year. Those who have work- possible, have an Inspector whoed with him know the keen In- We call for the registration of could devate the whole of his or terest which he has shown, and mui taai so that their lives muy be her time to the investigation of 1 personally hope that he will observed. In a Colony where the cases, and they thought it beat to continue to help an active bodies of nearly 2.000 children are sook the services of a woman who member of the Executive Comcast on the streets in one year it had experience of child welfare mittee. The General Committee seems almost necessary to ask for matters. Some difficulty was ex has asked Mr. Hazlerigg to join the registering and keeping trace perienced in finding the right Mr. T. N. Chau, an Hon. Secretary, of the whereabouts of every child. type of person, but in August the and as it le with you to decide The statement certainly indicates Committee secured the service of whether you will elect him I will

a breakdown of our system of the Miss Sèto Wai-sheung, who ask him now to addrean you and

registration of births and deaths. possesses excellent qualifications, also to second the adoption of the

I hope that the members of this and whone work has been most Report and Balance Sheet.

Society who sit in the Legislative antisfactory. The number

Council of the Colony, will make it of cases Is Increasing each month

their business to ask at an early and is likely to continue to in- In seconding the adoption of date whether the police discovered crease as the work of the Soclety the report, Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg the parents or others responsfole becomes better known. Up to aid: I should like in the first for the custody of those dead Christmas the total number was

place to associate myself with children, whether any prosecutions 39. The work of Investigation is the tribute which our President were instituted for failure to re cumulative, as old cases have to has paid to Mr. Prior for his glator deaths, and, above all, be kept under supervision. It work on behalf of the Society, whether any inquests, were beli seems highly probable that by The duties of An Honorary and whether the causes of the next summer we shall require a Secretary

were discovered. 'The second Inspector.

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The Society's Policy.

are onerous and the deaths Society owes a great debt to Mr. Prior for the able way in which he has performed them.

Juvenile Offenders. The second clause of our Con- In the next place. ny i am stitution requires us to advocate offering to take up the duties and promote any amendment of which Mr. Prior is relinquishing, any law which may be considered I wish to make my position clear. desirable for the protection of I am a Government servant, but, children or in their interests. if you elect me to office, I shall The Report tells you what the In all matters touching the wel Society has already done in con- fare of children, act solely as an nexion with Juvenile Offenders. officer of the Soc ely, and shall Our members have urged in the not be in any rense whatsoever Legislative Council the need for an instrument of Governmental special treatment of child dulin-control of the Society's netivities.

quents, and His Excellency the There are certain matters touch-

Governor has now appointed a Ing the Society's policy on which

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