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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE

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"McEwen found fault with my men in everything they did

"and reported me to the office. He also struck my "coolies and one coolie's hand was hurt rather badly. "This coolie has since left and I am still trying to

"get him back. When I asked Sham Iu to take the work "back, he took it, but after two days he demanded a

higher price, which I refused tá pay. He then chucked wit on the 17th January 1907, and that was the day he

"and his ocolies were sent up to the Peak by the M. 0.

"H. As regards the rubbish deposited on the praya, of "which the President of the Sanitary Board complained, it

"was deposited there for the lighter to carry away. The "lighter leaves here every morning at 3.30 a.m. and "does not come back till 6 p.m. In the interval the "house holders and the market man in the neighbourhood "of the receptacles remove their rubbish and deposit "it outside the receptacles. My own coolies throw the "sweepings into the receptacles; they do not empty "their baskets outside as the house holders do. My

"coolies are not stationed near the receptacles and so

"they cannot always clear away the rubbish deposited "by the house holders. They do clear it away when they "happen to pass by and see it. I have since put a man "on duty at the receptacles, and he has instructions to "prevent the house holders from depositing rubbish

"anywhere they like.

"I have two partners in the business. One is Chung Sui "and the other Leung Kien Shang. The subscribed capital "is $6,000, of which I contributed a third, and I an "the sol manager of the business. I have been called "up before Dr Clark twice and Dr Atkinson once and

"every time I was told that the Government would be

"asked to cancel my contract. I have spent a lot of "money for boats and utensils, and as no opportunity