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about $500 a year. Lo Man Kai asked me to put in some money in the Kowloon Con- servancy Contract. The Capital was $15,000 of which Sham In undertook to subscribe $8,000 and Lo Man Kai $7,000. I actually
I actually put in $500, my brother $1,000, Au Young Sui Sang $1,000, Tang Yang Chi of Sin Cheong fat boiling shop in Yu Yam Lane $500, Chung Tsz Yin of the same shop $500, Ho King Fai of the Shing Cheong, pork stall Sai Ying Pun market $500, Wong Siu Kwong of the Hing Nam tea shop Queen's Road West $500, Ho Cheuk Shun of the Kwan On, sea-delicacies shop near the Western market $500, Li Chung Kee of the Tin Tsun, soy factory Queen's Road Central $500, Mak Chung Shang of the Ying Wai Restaurant, West Street $500 and Lo Man Kai himself $500. (All these shops have more or less to do with the Sanitary Board. L.C.P.) The contract was started at the end of last Chinese year. I and Au Yeung Sui Sang stood as sureties. About 2 months later, we gave up the business and handed it all to Sham Iu. (and we lost $2,000. E.A.H.)
(Ho Tsoi was here informed that the deed could not be found among his books.)
A.-You have everything there. What was there is there, but if you want to see it Sam In has a taking over deed. The transfer deed, which the Commission keeps will prove this. The contract was obtained in the name of Chan Yuk. I have no share in Man Hing. Au Yeung Sui Sang looks after the business, and he is a partner in Kwong Man Hing, the grocer's shop. I cannot say if Lo Man Kai was the master of Man Hing, as he had never told me, nor had I ever asked him, but I suspected that he was.
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of the "Yat Heung" eating house, 41 Queen's Road West, in which I am interested, $10 for the Inspector for not cleansing the shop was paid to Lo Man Kai by myself. Lo told me he paid it to the Senior Inspector in charge of the cleansing gang. The cleansing was starting and there was no water in the shop to wash it.
17.-CHAN PUI, recalled:-
The Chairman. Now, Chan Pui, you have handed in a written statement to Mr. Lau Chu Pak. I will read it over to you and ask you to sign it. (Reads.)
Chan Pui of No. 2 Sam To Lane, states :— -I am the owner of Public Latrines No. 2 On Ning Lane, No. 14 Mercer Street, I am also the lessee of Public Latrines 29 First Street, 3 Sam To Lane, 3 Circular Pathway, No. 13 Tai Wong Street, 30 Nullab Lane and No. 2 Gough Street. On the 29th year of Kwong Chu when I was the contractor for Blood and Hair from Slaughter-houses, I had been paying $5 a month to the clerk Lo Man Kai, (He said for wages. E. A. H.) I paid him because he asked me for it. (Chan Pui said it was questionable. whether the business would show a profit or loss and Lo Man Kai said that he would let me know about matters in the office and it would be worth $5 a month as wages for Lo Man Kai. E. A. H.) I refused in the first instance, but agreed when he said he would look after me, when there should be any complaint made against me in connection with my contract. When I got the contract for Blood and Hair for the Hunghom Slaughter-house this year, Lo Man Kai again asked me to continue paying him $5 a month. I promised him that if at the end of the year I find I have made a profit I will pay him something, but not until then. While I was absent at Canton two months ago Lo came to ask any son A Tsun" for $20 on account of the Blood and Hair contract. My son paid him the $20, but on his apprising me of the fact on my return from Canton, I went to ask Lo Man Kai to return me the $20, and he did return it. (Because there was a loss. When there was a loss I could not give it, when there was a profit I wished to give it. E. A. H). When Sam Iu got the Yaumatiscavenging and conservancy contract about the 11th moon last Chinese year, he came with. Lo Man Kai to my house, to negotiate for the sale of nightsoil. They came together and my son saw them, as I was out. Subsequently Sam Iu and Chan Yuk called to sign an agreement for the sale of nightsoil to me. As to the entries in my book regarding the payment of money to the Inspectors and Interpreters, my son