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The Chairman.-Does a public ricksha coolie make more money than a public chair coolie ?
A. The public ricksha coolie makes more.
Q.-Do
your men pay you at the end of the moon or at the beginning of the moon?
A. They pay me once a month.
Mr. Badeley. Do all the chairs belong to you?
A.
All belong to me; some partners too.
Q. Have you any system of fining if they damage a chair?
A. No, I repair it myself.
Q.-Sometimes when Captain May asked you to get a private coolie for him had you any difficulty?
A. It was very hard. I had to get very good men for him.
NGAN WING CHI declared:-
The Chairman.-What do you do?
A. Formerly, I was head coolie to the Kowloon Godown Company.
Q. And what do do now
you
?
A.-I am head coolie to Jardine's Sugar Refinery, head coolie to the Tsimshatsui Godowns and headman of the Kowloon licensed ricksha coolies.
Mr. Badeley. Do you mean that you hold the licences?
A. Yes.
The Chairman.-You are licensee of the Kowloon rickshas?
A.—Kwai Fuk and I are the joint licensees of the Kowloon rickshas.
Q. And in addition to that you are head coolie at Jardine's Sugar Refinery?
A. Yes.
Q. And you are also head coolie to the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company?
A. Yes.
Q-What do you mean by being head coolie; what are your duties ?
A. My master asks me to go to Chu-chau to engage men to come to the Colony
to work.
Q. That is for Jardine's and the Godowns ?
A. The manager of Messrs. Jardine & Matheson, and Mr. Osborne, of the Go- downs, ask me to do this.
Q.-I take it that your principal business is to engage coolies for the Godown Company and for the Sugar Refinery ?
A. Yes.
Q. How many coolies are employed at Jardine's Sugar Refinery? A. There are many coolies employed there-Chu-chau men 1,000.