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isolated cases, but pretty often done?

A.

I have heard of cases now and again. It is the old question of leakage of information through the Chinese clerks in the District offices, that is what

it amounts to, of course.

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Not entirely. What furniture does the Sanitary Department give to the Senior Inspectors, for them to keep their books and things in ?

They have desks, lock drawers and cupboards, and I am

getting some more made.

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And have they ever asked you that they should have more locked accomodation, so that people should not come and

get information from their books?

I think they have always had anything of that kind

that they have asked for.

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But the reason they applied for it ?

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A.

The reason is that they wanted to keep it away from

the clerks.

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Have any of them ever put forward the reason to you, 16162 that they want more lockad accomodation to keep their

books in, because people have been in, in their absence,

and overhauled their books ↑

I have never heard any definite allegation of that

sort, but I have heard of leakage of information.

Brothels in this place are under the Registrar General ?

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

C.O. 537

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Yes.

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He can do what he likes with them ?

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He cant override this Act.

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It is far easier to send up to the Registrar General 16166-

to get brothala kept in a proper state, • leas

A.

trouble to him than to the sanitary Staff ▼

Not wilese he has the staff.

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