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reduction by putting forward one of their number ?

It never struck me, that a combination would take place

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in connection with stuff of such small value.

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Not with a Chinaman trying to save $200 or $300 ↑

the amount we obtained this time is much As I say,

higher than usual.

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But that does not enable you to test the market. It is a universally adopted custom in a business community that the best market you can get is Public Auction,

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and I cant really understand the reason which prompted you personally to institute a new system which is distinctly unbusinesslike from our point of view. You recommended it to the Government, and it was adopted. Yes, that is so. I dont say I instituted it.

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You personally therefore are responsible for a new system, which I must say appeals to me personally as being very unbusinesslike.

The system I believe was in force when I went there, and I simply followed my predecessor.

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I understood just now that you said -

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and the year I said so in connection with this year, before last, and practically ever since I have been

down there.

The Chairman:- g You advocated a private sale anyway.

Did any Inspector ever give you Chan Chan Nam's name ?

No.

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Mr Shelton Hooper:-

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Do you know he is friendly with any Inspector ↑ No, I cant say I do.

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Did you know the man ↑

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No, I didnt know him. Did you know his pidgin

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