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Q-You only deal in beef?
A.--Only in beef.
Q. Don't you belong to the Pork Guild?
A.—No.
Q.-You don't sell pork at all?
A.- No.
Q.--Well, you have some fokies whom you supply with money and they deal in sheep and pork?
A.-No. I do not supply my fokies with capital.
Q.--Then you do nothing at all but in beef?
A.-No.
Q. How many fokies do you supply with capital to deal in beef?
A. None of them.
Q.-You do not lend money to anyone to do it?
A.-No.
Q-What shop do you deposit your spare money in ?
A.-Really I have no money at all. I started in this way. I received $200 and
I at once paid it to my creditors.
Q.-You never have any money at all?
A.-No; I get my goods on credit.
Q.-Then whom do you borrow from?
A.--Tang Mow, hide dealer, supplies me with capital.
Q-Where does he live?
A. In Hollywood Road.
Q. Does he deal in hides there or is that his house?
A. He lives there and carries on his business there.
Q.-You buy all the hides in the Market from the other butchers and supply him? A.-I only sell my own hides to this man.
Q.-But you know the other butchers sell their hides to him just as well as I do? A.--Well, there are other hide shops.
Q.-This is not your business at all. This man Tang Mow supplies you with money?
A. The business is mine, and Tang Mow supplied me with capital and I started on my own account.
Q.-But if he tells you to put up the price of meat you have got to do it? A.No; there is no need for me to carry out his orders or instructions. I make
a contract to supply at certain prices.
Q. How many head of cattle do you buy every month?
A. That depends upon the quantity I am required to supply.
Q. How many on the average?
A.-Well, I generally average between 500 and 600 a month.
Q. Do you buy in Hongkong or outside?
A.-I buy at Pak Kon, Tien Chau, and Sai Kong.
Q.-Have you shops down there to buy these cattle for you?
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