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The Chairman.-Do you want to add anything?
A.-I would only mention that I think the public chair and ricksha coolies here —of course they are abused a good deal—but I think on the whole, at any rate so far as the Police are concerned, they give satisfaction. I think, for instance, that you will find that property left in vehicles very rarely is not recovered. I have known as much as $450 brought out of a public ricksha and handed over to the Police. The sys- tem works well, and I don't see why the same system should not work with the private coolies. The fact is that the public coolies give us far less trouble than the private ones do.
Q-Have you submitted any
scheme in all its details to the Government about the procuring of private chair and ricksha coolies? If so, would you give us the reference? A.—I sketched a scheme. I had a telephone message to me from the Colonial Secretary's Office to bring down the papers. This is the last letter I wrote on the subject. It is in C.S.O. 2804 of 1900 and it is dated 2nd August this year.
here ?
Mr. Badeley. Do you know of any private agencies for servants being started
A.--Yes, but they did not pay.
The Chairman.
A.--Yes.
For domestic servants ?
Q-There has been no agency for private out-door servants ?
A. Yes, all domestic servants. They did not succeed. Of course the thing must be made compulsory or it will never succeed.
This concluded Mr. May's evidence, and the Commission adjourned till Friday, 6th September, at 2 o'clock, when the evidence of Chief Detective Inspector Hanson will be taken.
6th September, 1901.
JOHN WILLIAM HANSON sworn :-
The Chairman.-What is your office, Mr. Hanson?
A.-Chief Detective Inspector, Sir.
Q.-As such Chief Detective Inspector, has the Captain Superintendent of Police requested you to procure private chair and ricksha coolies for individuals in the Colony?
A. -- Yes, Sir.
Q.-On how many occasions has he asked you?
A.-I think probably a dozen times.
Q.-Within what period?
A. Within the last eighteen months from the first occasion.
Q.-Were you asked to do it before you obtained the Office of Chief Detective
Inspector?
A.-No, Sir.
Q-It began then ?
A. Yes, Sir.
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