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The shop deals with me and the master knows MO.

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: Wa Chun t-

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How much is the business between you ?

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At Between two and three hundred or a

hundred for rice and

provisions.

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1 year ?

Atm

Ies.

Chairman i-

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You said just now that the Sanitary coolies bought their provisions from your shop, That is the Kwong Nan Hing I sup-

-pose ?

A:=

Ies

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At-

Do they give you very good custom ? Is it worth a large sum 3461

a month ?

Several hundrod dollars a nonth for provisions. There are a

hundred or more workmen.

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And how do you collect the money from then, when they get

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their wages at the end of the month ?

Atm Well I go up to the office at the end of the month.

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682- Which office ?

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At- To the Sanitary Board at the side door. Then they get pay-

-meat I get the number and I get the money from them.

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Supposing a man did not want to pay?

A:- I won't give him goods then.

3466592m But suppsing a man passes you with his pay in his pocket

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

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what do you do?

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I pull him and tell him to pay up his account.

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If he does not want to could you appeal to somebody in the Sanitary Board ?

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Atm

It would not do. 1 would speak to the Inspector then and I would not deal with him.

246 - Is it often that these men won't pay ↑

k- Tory saldom.

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