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Q. Have you been anything else?
A. Yes, I have been a private chair coolie to His Excellency the Governor before.
Q.-Before you became a public chair coolie, you were a chair coolie to His Ex- cellency the Governor. Which Governor ?
A. I was employed as a chair coolie to the present Governor for one year and also as chair coolie to the previous Governor.
Q. How do you make out that? You have been a public chair coolie for seven years?
A.-Saving two or three years.
Q.-Have you been going back and forward from public to private and from pri- vate to public employ?
A. I was in private employ but after that I took out a licence.
Q.-When
you left the Governor what did you do?
A. I was a chair coolie.
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-What kind of a chair coolie ?
A. A public chair coolie.
Q-What did you do when you first came here?
A.-I was a private chair coolie to a taipan.
Q. What made you leave private employ and go into public employ?
A. I left private employ because I preferred to be a street coolie. Sometimes I wanted to get home and I could not get home.
Q. Are you making more money as a public coolie than as a private chair coolie ?
A.-I am making a little more money than I was making in private employ.
Q. What were your wages in private employ ?
A.-Eight dollars a month.
Q.And what do you make now nett?
A.—I clear six to eight dollars a month nett.
Q. What do you pay for food?
A. Sometimes if I want more food I have to pay more.
Q. What do you pay a month as a rule?
A.--Six to seven dollars.
Q. How much do you pay for rent ?
A. From eighty cents to a dollar. It all depends upon the number of coolies lodging in the house.
Q. How much did you pay for rent when you first became a public chair coolie ? A.-Thirty to forty cents a month.
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-And what did you pay a month for food when you first became a public chair coolie ?
A.--From four to five dollars.
Q.--Do you pay a subscription to any society?
A.-No.