Sundays
too.
309.
Shelton Hooper:- You were assistant Inspector of Markets ?
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314
Jump Water
1932
Aim
I was some years ago.
Q1-
About how long did you hold that position ?
1933
A:
Two years.
434 2:-
Will you tell me did you use to supply the papers with the 1934
market price list ?
A:-
How do you mean supply ?
15.
21-
Well you know every newspaper here contains the market list: (935′′
How did they in your day get that list ?
A1-
Well they sent me a proof list.
Q: Who are they ?
A2-
Each paper sent me in three of last weeks list for correction
and I corrected these lists.
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How did you get the new information ?
At-
1936
1937
I had simply to go round the stalls. Perhaps I got it from
the men themselves or I went round with the foreman and made
him ank some of the things and other times I simply listened
to the people buying. I took three or four stallkeepers with
-
say mutton - and very likely sach man
་
a certain commodity
would have a price and if I happened to turn round
So I
really had to grope in the dark and strike the best average
I could.
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Now,
I am not putting it in the nature of a hribe at all,
were you aware of a custom that any of the tradesmen there
paid any sum of money to the Inspector for the trouble he
took ?
A:- Certainly not.
+73) Q1- Well, in these days, did the poulterers, so far as you re-
-member, pay Two dollars to a newspaper for which the news-
-paper supplied the Inspector with fifty copies of the price
1938
1938
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
C.O. 537
351
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COPYRIGHT PHO WANG, CALLY WITH-
REPRODUCED
RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC