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APPENDIX C.

PRIVATE CHAIR AND RICKSHA COOLIES COMMISSION.

As the Commission investigating the question of private chair and ricksha coolies cannot examine vivâ voce more than a limited number of witnesses, the Commissioners will be glad to receive, within three days, signed communications addressed: "Secretary, Commission, Supreme Court" containing answers to the following questions :-

Questions.

Answers.

1.--Have you had difficulty in procuring private chair and/or ricksha coolies?

1.-

2. Have you had difficulty in retaining private chair and/or ricksha coolies?

2.-

3. What are the causes of the difficulty in 1 and 2 ?

3.-

4.

What wages are you paying now?

4.-

5.

What wages did you pay five years

5.-

ago?

6.—

6. Are you in favour of making persons who engage unlicensed or unre- gistered private chair and ricksha coolies liable to a fine in the Police Court, if any system of licensing or registration is introduced?

Signature

APPENDIX D.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Nos. 1, 2 AND 6 IN APPENDIX C.

CHAIR COOLIES.

Yes.

No.

89.

Question 1.

RICKSHA COOLIES.

Yes.

No.

29.

78.

Question 2.

CHAIR COOLIES.

Yes.

No.

22.

RICKSHA COOLIES.

No.

Yes.

19.

78.

21.

95.