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verandah and I wont there and spoke to him.
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Mr. Woodcock ex
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Mr Lau Chu Pak:
Was Lo Man Kai there ?
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He was in the building and I spoke to Inspector McKenzie in
front of the Board room.
: 2mg Va Chun, Why did you take him out on the verandah ?
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I begged Dr Pearce and Dr Macfarlane to keep the matter as
quiet as possible and when I spoke to Inspector McKenzie,
wanted to speak to him quietly and
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Ir Shelton Hooper:- Don't you think Mr Woodcock that a man of your position in
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the Government
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subordinate one
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the appointment you hold is not a very
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that you would have shown: yourself as
exercising a little more intelligonce if you had communicat-
-ed it to the Commission which is appointed to investigato
these things? You know what I moan. I am not imputing any-
-thing to you but supposing a similar case occurred tomorrow
don't you think it would be your duty to bring it first to
the Commission. ?
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If I had done so, then Dr Clark would probably have reported
me to the Government for not bringing it to his knowledge as
head of the Department.
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And do you think the Government would have done anything
against you looking to the fact of the wording of our Com- -mission in which he instructs all officere of the Govern= -nent to give us the fullest information with a view to aid- -ing the Government and not to its detriment ? We are not working for a Department. We are working here for the good of the Government of which His Excellency is chief. And don't you think, if a similar case occurred tomorrow, that it is your duty to communicate to the Commission ? Have you any doubt of that ?