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Q. There was no such thing.
A. There was no such thing.
Q. How long have you been in this business?
A. Four or five years.
Q. At the Lun Hing?
A. Yes, I do not carry on that business.
Q. You have been a runner for four or five years?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it your business to attend at the Shipping office when crews are paid off?
A. Well, if I have time I go. If not someone else goes.
Q. Is it a part of your business to attend when crews are being paid off?
A. I go off to the vessels.
Q. You know anything about the Alcinous case?
A. It did not pass through my hands.
Mr. Chatham: How can you tell us about what went on at the Shipping Office if it was not a part of your business to go there and age the men paid off?
A. Well, I have to run about, I do go to the Sailors Home, and I do go off to the vessels.
Q. How many times have you seen men paid at the Sailors Home?
A. Two or three times. I go mostly off to the vessels.
Q. Two or three times in a year or in a month?
A. In the course of a year.
Sir Paul Chater: You don't know much about it?
A. No, I am not very clear about it.
Mr. Sercombe Smith: Then did Mr. Guterres ask you to come here and give evidence?
A. I was just talking.
Q. Then?
A. He sent someone.
Q. Then?
A. Some day, I don't remember when.
Q. Do you go to see him often?
A. Yes.