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Kam, clerk in the Registrar General's office that Ip Pak- shan had acted as the~

medium of hush money -payments to others than

Mr Osmund. This disclosure

and e

coupled with the fact that the witnesses Ip Pak shau and Loman Kam had nothing to gain

everything to lose by their admissions of complicity was reasonably regarded by the Council. corroborative of the evidence

ad

against

against Mr. Osmund, and the

further fact which was eli-

cited in the

course

of the enquiry that the Registrar General had some time~ previously issued a notice to the Chinese warning them. against paying the prescribed fee for certi. ficates enabling them to land at San Francises, of which Mr Osmund must

have been fully

more than

aware, lent

credit to the probability that

the