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uhjected to have it are, what would you

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You could not enforce it.

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You know that that is the law *

There is no s'ich law, I could not anforce it.

I would ask the " ́. 0. I's instructions how to act, but

I dont think 1° o uld be anforced.

Lall -hu Fak:-

Have ou ever heart of your coolie threatening to

prɔmeante people, because they would not allow thm to

put traps where they liked "

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A.

Yes, and they were reported and dismissed. I think I

had one 14 months or a year aro.

Dino Wa Thun:-

And The man was dimisrød ?

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Imediately. I had two.

Was he reemployed, do you know ?

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That I could not may, Sir.

Lau hu Pak: -

Who engages those goolies ?

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Mostly me, con erning my om staff,

The Chairman: -

To you mean 'o say that the Plague Inspectors aA & 20147

rule sulsot their own man, including the rat datching

A.

They select their owm mên.

And tho brings than ́to you ?

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I penerally get the Chinese foreman to do that, and if

the coolie did not sui* me, he could bring another, and

I have pot two men now dismissed for dishonesty. I

could not trust them. I aw one man put his hands into

a coat pocket hanging on th wall. There was nothing

in it. And another deliberatel, broke a bottle of port

wing in a Chinese brothel, and I told the M. 0. 9. that

I would not be "anyonsibis, Forking in broth 1n, you

have wot to be very careful, «s there is Jewellery and

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so on.

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hat about. foremen ?

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I have put one now. I have already anked the M. 0. 4.

to transfer him, but owing to the fact that we have no

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