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Ng Hon Chi (Hung Hong chi) recalled, and examined in English:-
The Chairman:-
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We have seen three of your fokis, and they have explained what you told us the other day, and they have all given their evidence very well. The only think I want to ask you now, is why it is that you, as a business man, should have allowed your people to pay $250, and not take a receipt for it?
If we ont pay plenty money, they make us very troubled, and very inconvenient for business, to concrete over again.
If you pay $250, or even a smaller sum, you expect a 7168
receipt ?
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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No, we have no receipt.
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But if, in the ordinary course of business, you always expect a receipt for it, as a business man ?
Reference:-
C.O. 537
35
RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE
A.
Yes.
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If you pay $10, $50, or $20 ?
A.
Any amount.
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· However large or however mall, the money is, you would always get a receipt ?
A.
Yes.
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Then it is an unusual thing to pay $250, and not get a7172
receipt?
(Question interpreted).
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It is not usual.
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Why would you allow your men to pay $250, and not take a receipt for it ↑ What was your real reason for allowing such a large sm to be paid, and not taking a receipt for it ↑
The Lick Kee promised our man that if he get a permit from the Inspector, not to concrete the ground floor,
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