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Sundays

too.

309.

Shelton Hooper:- You were assistant Inspector of Markets ?

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Jump Water

1932

Aim

I was some years ago.

Q1-

About how long did you hold that position ?

1933

A:

Two years.

434 2:-

Will you tell me did you use to supply the papers with the 1934

market price list ?

A:-

How do you mean supply ?

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Well you know every newspaper here contains the market list: (935′′

How did they in your day get that list ?

A1-

Well they sent me a proof list.

Q: Who are they ?

A2-

Each paper sent me in three of last weeks list for correction

and I corrected these lists.

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How did you get the new information ?

At-

1936

1937

I had simply to go round the stalls. Perhaps I got it from

the men themselves or I went round with the foreman and made

him ank some of the things and other times I simply listened

to the people buying. I took three or four stallkeepers with

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say mutton - and very likely sach man

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a certain commodity

would have a price and if I happened to turn round

So I

really had to grope in the dark and strike the best average

I could.

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Now,

I am not putting it in the nature of a hribe at all,

were you aware of a custom that any of the tradesmen there

paid any sum of money to the Inspector for the trouble he

took ?

A:- Certainly not.

+73) Q1- Well, in these days, did the poulterers, so far as you re-

-member, pay Two dollars to a newspaper for which the news-

-paper supplied the Inspector with fifty copies of the price

1938

1938

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

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- NOT TO BE

COPYRIGHT PHO WANG, CALLY WITH-

REPRODUCED

RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC