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Do you know that Chok Fu had a paper with him when he went to the Sailors Home?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you see the paper?
A. Yes, he held it and I saw it.
Q. What was it about?
A. I do not understand English.
His Excellency: What was it for; what was he going to do with it?
A. It was for payment of wages.
Mr. Chatham: Do you know if Sai Yau was at the Harbour Office?
A. I do.
Q. Who is he?
A. He is in the Yum Kai.
Mr. Sercombe Smith: That is a boarding house?
A. There is no one lives there.
Mr. Hewett: Isn't that a place where sailors go to gamble and spend their money?
A. No.
Q. What do they do there?
A. He engages people through the compradore's office to go on vessels.
Mr. Sercombe Smith: You mean it is not a boarding house where sailors live prior to going on board and after being discharged?
A. Yes.
Q. You mean it is an engagement agency, don't you?
A. Yes.
His Excellency (to Mr. Guterres): Have you any questions?
Mr. Guterres: I believe this is the man who presented the wages account, and not Chok Fu at all. It was some man like him, a short man.
Mr. Gompertz: Surely he does not look very much older than the other man?
A. He does.
His Excellency: You told us the man was old and short.
A. Yes.
Q. You would not call that man old, would you?
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