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Mr. Fung Wah Chün.-Oh yes, they do.
The Chairman.-Well, Chinese or Europeans, or anyone else to whom you sell small quantities?
A. To regular customers I supply four or five heads per day.
Q.--I asked you how many private customers you had?
A.-I supply 15 or 16 cooks a day.
Q. How many joints of meat per day do they get on the average ?
Sometimes more and sometimes less.
A.
Q.
How much is the highest?
A.-It would not run to more than six or seven pounds and sometimes between 10 and 20.
Mr. Fung Wah Chün.---Do the cooks from the Chinese shops buy meat from him?
A. Yes.
Q-Generally how much does a Chinese cook from a Chinese shop buy?
A. A coolie house consumes from 16 to 20 pounds per day.
Q. How many of these 16 cooks belong to compradores ?
A.-Seven.
Q.--And how many to eating-houses?
A.--One or two to restaurants.
Mr. Maitland.--Ask him if there are any other old butchers who have got a low rental of $10 a month ?
A. I am not able to tell.
́Mr. Fung Wah Chün.-How much cash per day does he get by selling beef?
A.-Between $60 and $70.
Q. And how much more?
A. The rest is all sold on credit.
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Q. How much does he sell per day taking cash sales and credit sales?
A.-Between $410 and $420.
Q-How much do his expenses amount to, including servants and everything?
A. The average is $18 a day.
The Chairman.--Is there any tax paid at Canton on cattle coming down?
A.-No.
Mr. Osborne. There is a question I should like to ask: has there been an increased consumption of beef among Chinese of late years?
Mr. Fung Wah Chün.-Yes.
Mr. Fung Wah Chün.--Are there not others besides these two engaged in this business of importing cattle?
A. Yes.
Mr. Osborne.--The main point we want to get at is whether there is any combi- nation between these men.
The Chairman.---We can only infer that, but as to getting any direct answer on that point we cannot do it,
Mr. Osborne.-These two men do not bear out what Inspector Cotton said. He said these men where the only two who imported cattle into the colony largely.
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