CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11] — Page 337

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pursue the thieves, then other thieves pounce down and take

away a great portion of the goods. In the case of sandalwood.

they will shove quantities into the harbour and then demand

40 cents a picul to fish it out again. There has always been

some of such thieving bus two months ago it became very rife.

The same is done with dried mushrooms. He instanced some cases

that had occurred. Asked by the Officer Administering the Gove?"n"

he -ment if had reported them he said he had not, but that those

in charge of the Godowns had blown whistles and no Police had

come. He said the thieving is still going on. Mr. Badeley said

he would put extra Police on in the day time. Mr. Chan con-

-tinued that he had been in Hongkong for 50 years and had not

seen such occurrences before. He added that there were a number

of cases of burglary and housebreaking effected by ontrahce

through the roofs of houses. About a week ago thieves had

stolen a box of clothing from the Man Hat Cheung in Bonham

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stole the goods. Mr. Chan said not. It was the work of thieves.

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riads was conducting those thefts.

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Mr. Chan wont to say that there were 3 or 4

shops in Salyingpun which receive stolen rice and other stolen goods. Te promised to enquire their names and to report them confidentially. Mr. Badeley asked if the articles referred to are of such a nature as to bender identification possible.

Mr. Chan said they were not.

4.

Mr. Ng Hon-tse said he lived in Caine

Road close to Sir Paul Chater's former house. During the past 12 months two robberies had happened at his house. On the first occasion 2 boxes of clothing were stolen. On the second a trea- -sure box containing jewellery worth some thousands of dollars.

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