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or "Private* ?

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No.

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Then the consequence is, the whole of the letters

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addressed to the Department, are first opened by a subordinate clerk in the Department ?

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Yes.

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And what is his pay ?

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About $60 a month.

he Chairman:-

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And do you ever get Despatch Boxes sent from Sanitary 14574

Officers ?

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No, I get no Despatch Boxes.

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If the Inspectors in the District Offices wish to communicate with you, how do they send their despatches

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up to you ?

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They dont send their Despatch Box up to me.

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I mean if they wish to communicate with you, how do

they do it ?

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE

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They write in the ordinary way, and it would be opened by the clerk. Very frequently, their communications come in the box, which goes to the

M. 0. H. and when the box is received, the M. 0. H's olerk sorts them out, and those that belong to the M. O. H. go to him, and those that belong to me, goea

to this clerk who sees all the letters addressed to me,

and he enters them in the book, and passes them on to

As a matter of fact, it amounts to this! That practic-77 ally the whole of the correspondence of the Sanitary Department is opened and dealt with by a subordinate Chinese clerk, or Indian clerk, before one of the

I mean a white man has any responsible Officers -

knowledge of the contenta at ull !

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