CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6] — Page 462

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Hon. Mr. Hawett asked me if I spoke Chinese, and I told

him I had only one certificate. He said, "I thought perhaps it

would have been better if you had spoken to the woman in Chinese."

I told him she understood English quite sufficient to understand.

Mr. Fletcher asked me if I knew the Aquino women Xavier kept, and

I said that, being in the district so long seven years I know

ber by sight, and soon after I returned from leave she asked me

if I had any old clothes to let her brother have. I gave them to

her for him. I know him. He used to be in the Sanitary Depart-

ment. Mr. Fletcher said, "You took them to her I replied, "Yes,

about a fortnight after." Hon Mr. Hewett asked if I had anything

else to do with this woman, and I replied, No. The Attorney-Gen-

eral then said In justice to yourself, can you give us any idea

why you should have this hiding and charges brought against you?

I told him that probably Mr. Xavier had it in for me, as he was

under the impression I used to visit his kept woman, and meant to

keep me out of his premises now he was married to his present wife.

He objected to my ordering the partition and bed away from his

premises, and thought that after laying the complaint against me

it would be finished with. But through the Head of the Depart-

ment more or less laying the trap, he was forced to go on and

make his other story good. I could give no reasons for it. I had been on the district seven years, and made friends and probab- ly enemies, as my duties as a sanitary inspector did not tend to

I had not seen the get me liked if I carried them out properly.

man before to my knowledge, although I had been on his premises during house cleansing and inspection many times in the course

of seven years.

The Attorney-General then said I put it to

you as man to man that if you went into a house, and saw a rather

attractive looking girl, and she was by karataf herself and appea-

red familiar with you, that you would go further with her?

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I said,