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G. Did you have any deductions made yourself the year before last?
A. No.
Mr Sercombe Smith
Q. Have you had any deductions made this year?
A. No.
Q. Has the first clerk done it this year?
A. I do not know.
Q. When did this practice cease?
Answer not interpreted.
Q. Was that done last year?
A. I do not know.
Q. When was the last deduction that you know made by Mr Guterres?
A. I got him to make a deduction in the year when a man was stabbed in Singapore. There were two or three dollars deducted.
Mr Thomson
Q. What have you been doing for the past two or three years?
A. When I go to get payment I see the paying off. If I do not I do not see it.
By Mr Sercombe Smith
Q. Has he been going to the paying off?
A. I go on board mostly.
Q. Has this been done on board ship?
A. Not this year or last year.
Q. The year before?
A. There was a man who died. I gave him $3.
Q. What about this man?
A. I gave three dollars to Mr Guterres.
Q. That was the year before last?
A. Well I cannot tell you. I must go back and look at my books.
His Excellency
Q. What was the deduction made? You paid a commission of three dollars. How much was the deduction?
A. There was a man who died and there was a payment of wages.
By Mr Sercombe Smith
Q. What did you give three dollars for?