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2300.
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4.
you never heard of it, in your experience ?
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A.
I have never heard of it.
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D.
Now then, it comes back to this. You copy that Chinese
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register, kept by the sexton, which he gives you ?
A.
That is so.
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Which is written in Chinese, in his own handwriting 19360
That is 80.
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I take it, you dont read Chinese ?
A.
And I cant speak it, unfortunately,
62 9.
No, but read it ?
A.
No.
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639.
A.
Then who do you rely on for interpreting that ↑
I rely on my clerk.
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64 Q
Your interpreter ?
18764
A.
No, the telephone clerk, Sir.
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Is he a chinaman?
18665-
A.
Yes.
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A.
And can he speak English well ?
Splendidly.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
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REPRODUCED P OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH-
RECORD OFFICE,
LONDON
The Chairman:-
A.
Mr Shelton Rooper:-
And he copies that out ▼
Who is the man ?
Wong Wei Tsun.
Coming back to the measurements. You say there are 18668
about ten burials a week, and you go there once a work ▼
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A.
YOB.
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Q.
A.
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A.
How long do you spend at the cemetery ↑
That is a question I can hardly answer. Sometipes I have been there an hour, and sometimes an hour and a half. On some occasions, I have been longer, and on
other occasions, I have been shorter.
What do you do ?
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I say to the sexton "how many grave spaces have you got open". He will say "Four, section A, section B two, Bection C, I have got three". I simply go and measure
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