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In 1903, after Inspector McEwen.
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Did you get any increase of salary ↑
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Mr Shelton Hooper:-
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An increase of £30 a year. I was promoted to second class Inspector for knowledge of Chinese, and put into
the market shortly afterwards.
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You say you took lodgers, and they practically made
the expenses ?
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They practically made the expenses. My wife is pretty economical, and they practically met the expenses.
And under these circumstances, if your lodgers met their own expenses, and the profit you made from them keeps yourself and your wife, that is so much gaired,
is it not ?
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Reference:-
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Yes.
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And that would amount to over $100 a month
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Sometimes $100 per month. There are incidental expenses to come out. I have known the time when my
all pay has been nearly in the house, without any expenses.
You say that you think that part of that $2900 paid
into the account -
The Chairman:-
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I am not quite sure of that account, Bir.
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I think that any business man would romerber an w.cunt Euch as that, and particularly you, when it was your cwm account, and concerns a very large sum of money. You eay that Mrs Brett's Savings Bank account, the total of which somes to $2800, and you think part of that was represented by the £93 of the Perkins' Fund
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I cannot say all.
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But part of it?
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I can tell you this further, that this remittance which
you made of 293, the Perkins Fund, appears to the debit
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of your current banking account on the 3rd Notoher and is represented by the sum of $1012.17. The whole of