YAN PING HUP declared:-
The Chairman.-What are you?
A.-I am a ricksha coolie.
Q.-Your number?
A.-No. 252.
Q. Is that your ricksha number?
A. Yes.
( 122 )
Q.
How long have you been in Hongkong?
A. I only arrived in the seventh moon of this year. I had been in Hongkong some time in the first moon, but the water and climate did not suit me, so I had to go home. I came back again in the seventh moon.
Q. What were you when you first came?
A. Well, I came down here with a view to getting employment as a ricksha coolie,
health would not permit me to remain, so had to go back.
but my
Q. Did you get employment?
A.-I got no employment.
Q.-What do
you pay for
your
food
per month?
A.-Why do you want to know that?
Q.- How much do you pay for your food each month?
A. Five or six dollars.
Q.-And how much rent do you pay each month?
A. A dollar a month.
Q. What are your gross takings a month?
A. Well, not very much-twelve or thirteen dollars a month.
Q.--Is that gross or nett?
Mr. Badeley.-Does that include what you pay for the hire of your ricksha, because you pay 32 cents a day for that I suppose?
A.-I pay 200 cash a day for the use of the ricksha.
The Chairman.-What do you find yourself left with at the end of the month when you have paid everything?
A. Seven or eight dollars after paying the house rent, chow, and hire of the ricksha.
Q. Do you pay anything in the way of subscription to any society?
A. No. I am a newcomer. I am not a member of any society.
Q.-Do you make more money out of your short distance runs than you do out of your long distance runs ?
A.—I do. That is to say, if I come across a generous master he pays me more. Q. When you take Chinese, do they bargain with you?
A. Yes, some of them do make a bargain, but some don't.
Q.--Suppose the ordinary fare is five cents, what will a Chinese bargain with you to carry him for?
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