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were standing watching the new stall, taking no action. Interviewer: Why did they escape?
Mrs. Elliott: Well it's obvious. I asked the lady and she
said "Well money could be the only answer to that". And so I said "Well how much money?" and she told me this morning that it would be ten dollars a week, which she can't afford to pay.
Interviewer: Did she say who she would have to pay the ten
dollars to?
Mrs. Elliott:
She said the police would want it, yes.
Interviewer: So how much would a top policeman make from the hawking racket?
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several
Mrs. Elliott: That would be difficult for me to say
thousand dollars a month. If you're talking about hawking, several thousand dollars a month, if you're talking about other
rackets, then the man at the top would probably get at least ten
thousand dollars extra.
Interviewer: And how much is this in English money?
Mrs. Elliott: In English money, ten thousand dollars would be something like six hundred pounds.
Interviewer: Per month?
Mrs. Elliott:
Yes.
Narrator: Another of Mrs. Elliott's cases involves the Chew
family who own a shop Tung Ka Estate. They're not hawkers, but to supplement the income from the shop, they have this small
three foot square table outside. It's used only by small boys for playing billiards, yet it nearly landed Mr. Chew in jail.
Mrs. Elliott: They'd been arrested, summonsed, there were eight summonses for having two table tennis tables measuring
six feet by ten feet outside their door. Now I saw the summonses and this is what it said in English, but on the Chinese side, it only said 'obstruction'. When they reached
the court, they discovered for the first time, from the inter- preter that the charge against them was table tennis tables,
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