CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 15

14 are the same junk. I sold shells to Sun Shing Les of Shar Shoi Po..l got

sheils at Ping Chau over 20 years. By junk is

some work at the line boss as a foki.

or years old. I have

As soon as the Company started we could not get sufficient money vo

maintain the junks and the junk was poohored and destroyed by the typhoon.

I paid no licence fee to the Chinese Government. I got a book from the TE

Yee, Deputy in Show Shui Fo. The book is lost. The juna cost me over 1000

tasis a year for wages, provisions and other expenses. I got about $1800

or $1900 a year from the sale of shells. I would get now the seme as be-

fore. I used to get 1 mace 2 cenderesus for 1 Tau before and the price is

the same now. Each share got about 72 teels a year and there were 12

sheres. I am entitled to I and a half shares. I may get 110 or 180 teels.

We stopped äredging because of the start of the Corpany and not becsuse of any loss is made. The Tokis were afraid they could not get money and they stopped acrking. I an employed in the Sun Yes Shop at Ping Cheu. I ar owing money because of the loss of the junk. I got 978 from Tak Yum of

Ping Chau.

Lan Tung Shun Junk (3rd. witness)

Lam Tung Shun states:- 1 an owner of the junk Lex Tung Chun, Sei Yok, handed over fror my ancestor 15 years ago. The junk is on shore at Sai Fo.. At the commencement of the Lai Bing Oc. I could not get sufficient acney to carry on my junk. I was dredging culy a few months in the 29th. year. I could not earn sufficient and the foxis went awsy. I had to pay 3 candareens per Tau to the Company and I got oanderesns per Tau befors The junk.cost me about $400 a year, a little more than $1 a day. It is a small junk. I sold my shells at Sham Shui Po. After the Conceny started I got only ¤ candersens per fau. The foxis did not leave me until I could] not pay them. Now I would get over $1,000 a year. I could run a junk for dredging not including the payment of the licence to the Company. Before I would get about $800 net. The boat is beccse rotten because it is on shore. I have no money. I only did business for one month in the 28th. year. I am now a labourer, a coolie at Sher Shui Po. 1 get $26 a year. I an working as a coolie in the Door Yards at Sher Shui Fo. I got betasen 50 and 50 Tau a day in the 2ful. year. Any arount of compensation will