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At a minimum rate. I said several timon that I could not see why
any body should charge more than $1 including the photographs,
It was then that I started to fill out sypliortions foras for
ersons vio aered to come to £36.
Chalasari khat date was that, about?
A.
ometime in December.
It must have been at the very end of Deoaber?
YOR.
The decision of the Executive Council was taken on the 24th Dece -
be
bar and it was between than and 31st Decaber that you/gan prepara-
tions for an agency?
Yes.
water1lyth: At the commencement what charges did you make for
your services?
60 centa for doing the olarical work and 40 cents the photographa
#1 in all.
I thin: that Hr. Yorat sent for you again soon efterwards, when
wae it?
ometime at the beginning of Jaruiary.
And whon did he propose you should sign the agreement?
Kr. Forrest indicated his desire to centelise agency work, for the
simple N:uson that he thought some of the agents had corrupted his
s:aff by actually paying thơm bribes for expediting the permits.
Actually many of the so-called agents had circulated rumours that
the man who wis doing the work for $1 could not supply than quickly
because to produce the perrito quickly required more than (1. *
had one of my employees sent to a place in Chimukiwan, and he orme
back to me with this statement.
Was the question of agreement raised at that interview?
That I believe came a little later. Mr. Forrect first expressed
the possibility of working with different agencies and asked if
I would undertake to act as a sort of go between so that the agenta
would not go to the 1.0. direct.
Shen was the actual written agreement first nooted?
That was afterwards.
e had several discussions with Ar. Forrest
and I think it was in the first half of January that Mr. Forrest
toll me that he would nend out sircular let ere to all agencies