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A few daysxxg I spoke to Mr Woodcook, and he showed me

a letter from Lo Man Kai asking for leave, saying he had

been taken ill, and wanting to go away, and Mr Woodcock

was to show it to Dr Clark. I dont remember speaking to

Dr Clark personally about it.

It was on a Thursday or a Friday that this discussion 3917

took place ?

I think it was on the Wednesday I told Mr Woodcock. It was on a day he was visiting the jail as a Justige.

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Dr Clark, but in any case Lo Man Kai left on the Sunday afternoon, and it was on a Monday morning the letter was

received that he was going to Canton, and it was immediately on that that Dr Clark wrote to the Police ?

I believe that that is so.

Have you ever had any suspicion or any idea that things 39/9 were not quite straight in the Department

that there

might be some question of men making profits out of

their position, or anything crooked about the contracts ? About the contracts I cannot say I have had any suspicion which has been founded on anything definite. I have heard rumours and complaints from time to time about squeezing the Department, but I dont know that it

is specially relating to contracts.

To Inspectors, or Overseers, or what ↑

The general work of the Inspectors who have to go round and see that the work is carried out - that notions are

served) and there is only one occasion when I managed

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