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Mow prevented me from sending in an immediate reply.
1. In the Police Court, I have always found the interpretation fairly satisfactory. I do not remember any serious difficulty or dispute arose in that Court with reference to the interpretation and during the time of my service under articles with the late Mr. Gaskell and during the four years when I was in practice as a Solicitor, I was very frequently engaged in that Court.
2. I have never been before the Coroner, but I assume that the Police Court Interpreters serve in his Court also and give satisfaction.
3. In the Court of Summary Jurisdiction as formerly constituted, I practised a great deal as a solicitor and my recollection of it is that things went on much more smoothly and there were fewer apparent bitches in the interpretation than in the Supreme Court, but, Mr. Rozario being the interpreter in Chinese and Portuguese, there were occasional difficulties arising out of Mr. Rozario's imperfect mastery of English and liability to suffer from some slight confusion of mind and impediment of speech, if any dispute took place or any positive argument or contradiction arose.
4. As to the interpretation in the...