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#translate the Sanitary Board orders for him.” *2. When I called on him, I always sat inside the "counter, a place for the master or partner according *to Chinese custom. My reason for doing so, is because nt place elsewhere in a grocer "I could not find a
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#3. I made out the bills for him. I may mention that I
"made out bills for 5 or 6 other contractors.
#4. I 2860oiate with him.
5. People think I have the power of giving the "contract to anybody I like, for some men had called at "my house and requested me to give them the contract "saying that I could do so if I liked, and that Han "Hing could not get the contract for 5 or 6 years if I "did not give him my assistance. They also said that "they would give me a share, without requiring me tê "pay any money. I remember L. P. Cooke, who lives in "Connaught Road Central now is one of them. If there is "any doubt about Man Hing's getting the nontract for B "o! 6 years, I man mention that Hu Cho has been "supplying the Government Civil Hospital with atores
*for over 20 years.
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"I admit that I have received presents from Man Hing on · *oach Chinese Festival, but would also like to point
"out that the proprietor (Au Sui Bang) and I are friends
"I having know him sinos I was a few years old.
with reference to my absence from the Colony without "permission, I beg to state that I had fever on the 17th *June (Sunday) and fearing that I was attacked by "plagu® plague being then prevalent - I left the "colony as the Chinese always so, and the reason why I "did not return to Hongkong, after I have recovered,
#is that a few days after I left I received words from "my family that some Police Inspectors looked for my in
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