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Mr. Haper
A.
2327 Q.
2880.
D. 1.0 Hallkan, d
810
Not a word. I got a pencil ahit from the Senior Inspector about 2 days before the Chinese New Year, and he said "I hear you have got extra coolies", and I replied "I have no authority to employ extra coolies, and when I get the authority from the M. 0. H. I will
act accordingly".
What were you before you joined the Sanitary
Department?
23.273
I was sick berth steward in the Navy. I went to the Sanitary Institute and got my certificates.
A.
74
Q..
Did you leave the Navy and join the Department ? 23274
A.
Yes, I got my discharge from the Navy Gospital here. I was in charge of the surgery in the Dook Yard.
I was
asked to join the Department when Mr O'Keefa died, but
I refused then, and took on No 6 District about 3
months after.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
GO. 537
37
RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE
The Chairman:-
75°
A.
76 Qu
A.
*~3275
Have any Chinamen or anybody ever offered you money
direct?
That was the principal reason that I got my last interpreter dismissed, because on two occasions he told me the way things were done, He said I kicked up too much bobbery, that the last Inspectors were not so particular at all, and in one house in Connaught Road,
there were a lot of No 133, an emigration house, Aubrilos
veekies not supposed to be there, and when I served my notice, I said to my interpreter "what is that man Baying to you" and he said "He says he wants to make
you a present".
And what happened then ?
about 750
23276
I have served over 150 small notices in my time, but
·
most of them are still existing.
It is the Genior Inspector'shusiness to e xanine ?~?
Yes, and see the notics is complied with.
77
A.
78
Q.
A.
NO,
23.278
And it is not your business to see them complied with?
but in some cases I get notices to revisit and ser
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