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The Chairman:-

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Lai Him, recalledte

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Lai Hesin ext

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Now Lai Him, I am glad to see that since you were last here you have come to your senses, and are going to

tell the truth now.

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Yes.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Mr Pung Wa Chuh:-

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The Chairman :-

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$793

It is the very best thing you can do. I know a great deal of what you have been doing. I know a great deal more than you think. You were sent you, and both you

and your accountant told good deal of untruths, and

you did not produce your proper books.

As to books, those are the only books.

What do you mean by saying "Sui Kwai" ?

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I mean that he drank wines with me, and did not pay me. Yes, you denied all that before, but since then, you gifs have made a statement before Mr Lau Chu Pak. I am

going to read you this statement, and you can tell mo

if it is not correct. (Chairman reads statement).

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31st July1906.

"Li Him, states:-

"Inspector Ward has been in the habit of coming into my "shop and ordering drinks without paying for them. He "comes to my shop almost every day. Sometimes once a "day and sometimes three times a day.. In the daytime, "he generally comes with his interpreter, but in the "evening he comes by himself and sometimes with his "friends. He never pays for drinks, except when he "gomes with many friends, and when he eats things to a

"pretty good sum. Then he pays about seven tenths of "what I charge. What I chiefly object to, is that he "had on two or three occasions arranged with people to

"pay him money in his shop. I remember on one occasion "about 4 months ago, the master of the Tung Wing Beef

"stall,

Central Market, paid Inspector Ward $30 in my