6.8
2512.
uhjected to have it are, what would you
A.
You could not enforce it.
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Impit Alle..
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20.242.
You know that that is the law *
There is no s'ich law, I could not anforce it.
I would ask the " ́. 0. I's instructions how to act, but
I dont think 1° o uld be anforced.
Lall -hu Fak:-
Have ou ever heart of your coolie threatening to
prɔmeante people, because they would not allow thm to
put traps where they liked "
20243
A.
Yes, and they were reported and dismissed. I think I
had one 14 months or a year aro.
Dino Wa Thun:-
And The man was dimisrød ?
20244
44
A.
Imediately. I had two.
Was he reemployed, do you know ?
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That I could not may, Sir.
Lau hu Pak: -
Who engages those goolies ?
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20146
46
4.
Mostly me, con erning my om staff,
The Chairman: -
To you mean 'o say that the Plague Inspectors aA & 20147
rule sulsot their own man, including the rat datching
A.
They select their owm mên.
And tho brings than ́to you ?
A.
20248
I penerally get the Chinese foreman to do that, and if
the coolie did not sui* me, he could bring another, and
I have pot two men now dismissed for dishonesty. I
could not trust them. I aw one man put his hands into
a coat pocket hanging on th wall. There was nothing
in it. And another deliberatel, broke a bottle of port
wing in a Chinese brothel, and I told the M. 0. 9. that
I would not be "anyonsibis, Forking in broth 1n, you
have wot to be very careful, «s there is Jewellery and
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so on.
'r Tau Chu Pak:-
49
A.
hat about. foremen ?
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I have put one now. I have already anked the M. 0. 4.
to transfer him, but owing to the fact that we have no
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