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Mr. Badeley.--How are you to enforce a maximum rate of pay? Are you to make it penal ou anyone who is found to be paying more?
Witness. I do not think that would work very well.
[The Commission then adjourned till Monday, 23rd September, at 11 a.m., it being agreed to summon Mr. A. W. Brewin, Registrar General, for that hour, and Mr. J. T. Lauts for 11.45.]
23rd September, 1901.
ARTHUR WINBOLT BREWIN sworn :--
The Chairman.-Mr. Brewin, you are Registrar General
A.--Yes.
Q.--And you have been Assistant Registrar General ?
A.--Yes.
Q.-You got my note on Friday saying that the chief points on which we wished to examine you were the question of guilds and the question of which Department registration should be done in, if registration of private ricksha and chair coolies were introduced ?
A. Yes.
Q.-Now, are bawkers and cargo-boatmen licensed at the Registrar General's Office ?
A. Yes, sampans as well.
Q.-Is any other class of persons licensed by the Registrar General ?
A. No, these are all.
Q. Is photography employed as a means of identification ?
A.—Yes.
Q.--Is this the best means of identification that you know of?
A.--It is the simplest.
Q.-Is it effective ?
A. Yes, quite effective.
Q. Is this method resented by the hawkers, cargo-boat people or sampan people?
A. Certainly not, as long as I have been connected with the office.
Q.-If compulsory registration of private chair and ricksha coolies were introduced,
in which Government Department do you think it would be likely to be most effective?
A.-Either in the Police or in the Registrar General's Department
Q.
Have you a preference for either?
A.-Well, it has been the policy, you know, to remove registration to a certaio extent from the Registrar General's Office. Chairs and jinrickshas used to be registered there.
Mr. Badeley.And arms dealers at one time ?
A.--Arins dealers were once.
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