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Why was Tai Kau Lau making reconnaissance and counting customers when no applications for reduction were made? Sometimes when stall stopped business for a few hours
operators would make such a request otherwise not.
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You said there never had been such a request in Causeway Bay?
Although no one had ever made a request for permanent reduction but after a raid but often proprietors had to move. the establishments they would make applications for reduction of 50% or 20%. This was quite often.
And Lau dealt with those on the spot?
No.
He had to seek instructions of Mo Hak Shing.
Through you?
Yes.
and was reduction ever permitted?
Yes.
What sort of amounts?
Sometimes reduction of 30% or 40%.
What were your duties?
When they collected money they handed the money to me and I
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passed the money to Cheng Pak.
of the boss to them.
That's all?
Sometimes I conveyed instructions
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Yes.
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Where did Hung Chai hand you the money?
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Hung Chai first had to hand the money to Tai Kou Lau and after
Tai Kau Lau had collected all the money he would hand it to me.
Where?
At Hung Fook Building.
When?
Usually about 12 noon.
You said you are retired?
Yes.
Have you a family?
I have a wife, mother-in-law.
Children?
No.
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