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Are you aware that they invariably are ?
I was not aware that they invariably are.
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You have been in charge of the Department for some 15652
months. Have you never found out that that is so ?
Did you never think that you, as Head of the Department,
absolutely as you think according to your reading of
the ordinance, that you are absolutely in supreme
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control, did you never think to find out how the
correspondence was dealt with.
Has the Secretary told you that all the letters are
opened by Chinese clerks, because I have seen him open
letters myself ?
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Certainly he has told us so, that the rule is that any
letters addressed to the Secretary, or to "G. ha
Woodcock. Esq.," as Secretary of the benartment,
opened by a Chinese clerk.
Or to the Board,
are
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that the correspondence was properly dealt with ↑
It never occurred to me to ask the question, as to who
opened such correspondence.
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Do you think anything can justify the opening of those
letters by a Chinese clerk
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No, it seems to me utterly foolish. There are two
Europeans there, and I cant see any reason for it.
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And yet this system has been going on for several years,
and you were not aware of it ↑
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Is not aware of it.
Er Lau Chu Paki-
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Yes, I have acted as Secretary.
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Did you not sometimes act as Secretary ?
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When you acted as Secretary, did you allow letters to:5b8
be opened by a Chinese clerk, too?
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