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Witness warned not to touch the headstones referred to overnight or remove them.
A. I understand.
Q-Who engages men to take the coffins from the mortuary to the cemetery?
A. The people themselves.
Q-But you always engage men for this chii ka"?
A.-No.
Q. In the case of graves 5,501 and 5,224 did you not buy the coffins and afterwards take them up and bury them in another place in the Cemetery?
A.-No.
Q-Are these numbers entered in your books?
A. Yes, you look at the book and you will know.
Q.-You pick out the book.
A-I dont remember which book.
Book found and examined :-
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-No. 5,504 is buried in the three dollars place now. right?
That is not
The Chairman. Did you make these entries youself? Is that your handwriting (pointing to entry 5,504)?
A. Yes, I made the entries myself.
Q-Is that your-handwriting (pointing to entry 5,224) ?
A.-I made the entry.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-No. 5,224 is the body of a child four years of age, is it not?
Q.-Yes.
That is not me. It is A Tong and A Muk.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.--Under your supervision?
(No answer).
The Chairman.-So this body was exhumed and buried in another place?
A. It was first buried in the two dollars ground and, I do not know how it was, the next day it was not there and I said it would not do not to be there. A Tong said :- "That is the same way as we did before.' A Tong said it would do as they pay a fee.
Q.-Who to ?
A.-To the Government.
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Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-Was this reported to the Sanitary Board ?
A. It was.