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That is what the Commission is sitting here for. The Commission is sitting here før only a short moment. The Commission will not be for ever.

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if they want something, they want to satisfy themselves, they want to report to the Commissioners. Nobody likes to pay $3 or $4 for limewashing a when he knows perfectly well the work can be done for $1. If you go to Mr Woodoook, and you cannot get the satisfætion you want, go to the Colonial Secretary,

or the Registrar General, and I am sure they will hear what you have got to say.

Not every one of them had such knowledge, even people

like me, to know everything about it. But still, I m

afraid of trouble. But sometimes you dont have very

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good evidence. Perhaps you lose the case, and then we

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have to suffer, like last time my trouble with Mr Crimp. Every Inspector looks at me as an enemy. They

give me more trouble. How can you do it.

I understood you to say that the Commission does not (341 sit for ever, and therefore you think that the present moment, the Inspectors are afraid to annoy you, but when this is over, you think they will bully you. But

bear this in mind, we are working here to get evidenos

to send to the Governor to alter the laws.

That is the better way.

But we want to get the informatien first, before we (342) can sendit up to him, and after this Commission has osamed to exist, you need have no fear whatever, because Mr Lau will exist, Mr Fomatt will exist. You can come to all of us, and if there is the slåg, test

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