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Sergeant Peter Angus 82.

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I was transferred to Cheung Chau in October 1903--- Married, two children. We lived in the quarters in the Station during the summer of 1904. About May, 1905, I think I sent in an application on Form P. 50 (attached) for permission to erect a matshed for my wife and family to live in during the summer months. I received back the form later with the permission to erect a matshed and to pay no fee. The minutes on the form were quite short. I think the C.S.P. sent it to the P. W. D. with the words *to you* and the P. W. D. sent it to the C.S.0. with the words "any objection". There were initials on the form, which I did not know. I think I handed the paper over to Sergeant Gordon when he took over fram me in December, 1907. I did not lose the form. Three of the Indian Police were living in the Station in 1904 and one out- -side. During the summer of 1905 they were all outside the Station, but the Indian Sergeant lived in a house next door to the Station. None of the Police lived more than fifty yards from the Station while I was there. No matshed was put up for them while I was there. Married Indians cannot live in the Station because of their wives. Single men complained of fleas and mosquitoes. The Samshu factory close to the Station was very obnoxious.

By Mr. Severn. I did not hand over the matshed to Inspector Gordon as it had been practically destroyed by typhoons, but I showed him the permission I had got to erect it. I slept in the matshed through three summers 1905, 1906 and 1907. I took it that I had permission to do so.

Inspector Alexander Gordon.

I took over at Cheung Chau from Sergeant Angus on the

26th. December, 1907. There were three Indian Constables and an

Indian Sergeant. The Sergeant was living in the upper floor of the

building now occupied as a school on the opposite side of the

street at the back of the Station. One I. P. C. was living with

him. One at the end of the lane near the temple 40 or 50 yards

from