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Kam, clerk in the Registrar General's office that Ip Pak- shan had acted as the~
medium of hush money -payments to others than
Mr Osmund. This disclosure
and e
coupled with the fact that the witnesses Ip Pak shau and Loman Kam had nothing to gain
everything to lose by their admissions of complicity was reasonably regarded by the Council. corroborative of the evidence
ad
against
against Mr. Osmund, and the
further fact which was eli-
cited in the
course
of the enquiry that the Registrar General had some time~ previously issued a notice to the Chinese warning them. against paying the prescribed fee for certi. ficates enabling them to land at San Francises, of which Mr Osmund must
have been fully
more than
aware, lent
credit to the probability that
the