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Interpreter:-
Mr on Hooper!
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A.
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He is going on in a vague aort of way.
But what I want to ask him in whather,
Lo Mein Stre
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It was batter that we gave him the money. It was better that a present was given to him.
70 9.
20370 And did you think that they would not have altered the
hour if you had not given him the present ?
A.
Well, we saw that everyone paid. Everybody paid it in
the guild.
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71 Q.
~ A.
20571 Nog 1 that Inspector woule have altered the hour of washing without your paying that, you would have been:
hetter pleased, would not you?
Yes, we would have been pleased,
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satisfied.
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72.9.
And therefore you thought it was absolutely necessary
to pay him that amount, in order to get him to chang•
the hour?
A.
Well, everyhody pays it.
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The Chairmant-
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A.
74 Q.
The Interpretart-
Mr Fung Wa Chuni-
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Who was the man who got the money, do you think ↑ Wan he one of the European ‘Inspectors of the Sanitary
Department?
I dont know, Lan Shau Fun's hand paid it to him. Wa
aid not know who it was paid to. It was he who paid it.
He is not here now, because he has got palsied in the
feet, and he is homein the country.
What we understand now is that the Fish Lan always 20174
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11 to their advantage to pay $10 a month to the Sanitary Depariment to have the Fish Lan cleaned out in the afternoon, when business was not so great, that it was more convenient, and that they would not have got that convenienos unlea. they paid the $10.
Is that what you mean?
It is very hard to get anything from this witness.
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I will put the English to him in the Chinese way. The
Inspector wanted your fish shops washud in the
morning?
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