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made enquiries about it, and found that it was not.
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Did you find out who sent them ?
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I had not the slightest idea who it was.
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Witness cautioned not to speak outside of anything
taking place in the room.
Fitness:-
Kight I ask you, Mr Chairman, if you would take
cognisance of one or two little things ✨
The Chairman:-
It depends on what they are.
itness:-
This is a Royal commission, and I should like you to
accept my views on the way I am treated in Hongkong.
The Chairman:-
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Is this a personal matter, with regard to your
arreemont with the Government ?
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No, Mr Chairman, this is dealing with the practical
work I have carried out in Kowloon.
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That, I think, falls within the terms of the Commiss-
ion.
It has a great deal to do with the fovernment as far
as the question of expense is concerned.
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you are called upon to supervise the work, and keep down expenditure in matters in which your previous
training has not qualified you to express an opinion.
vy previous training qualifies me to supervise all sanitary fittings, otherwise I am not fitted for my work. It has really to do with the Government, and the manner in which I have been træsted, that I would like to pass one or two remarks. At the present time, I am drawing £20 per year less than any other man in the Department. I have built dust carts, the total expenso of which amounts to $105 sach, which I understand is less than the price of a pair of wheels of the carts supplied. I have hullt St Johns Ambulances, which from my.previous experienos is quita within my scope, and which if they had been done in Hongkong would have cost much more. I have taught a coolie to sew nails, and a
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