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Q.-Dont you get eighteen dollars a month from the Tung Wah Hospital ?
A.--That is my younger brother's, yes.
Q.-You get it yourself, dont you ?
A.-My younger brother.
Q. Why do the Tung Wah Hospital say they engage Lo Chung, sexton of the Mount Davis cemetry to look after the mortuary at $18 a month?
A.--They did put my name down at first but I could neither read nor write.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.--Do you mean to say that you have taken your brother on to assist you?
A.--No, it is just that my younger brother does it.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Does your younger brother ever go up to the Tung Wal Hospital?
A.-Every month the wages are paid. He goes to get brooms and so on.
The Chairman. And draws the eighteen dollars a month?
A.I receive it with my hand and give it to my younger brother.
Q. How much do you keep of that?
A.I give it all to him. I dont keep it.
Q.-Dont you think it is a very laudable thing for an older brother to draw $8 a month for himself and draw $18 a month for his younger brother?
A.-Well, you see I can't write.
Mr. Fang Wa Chun.-Why didn't your younger brother go and get the $18 a month himself?
A.--Because the Tung Wah Hospital has got my name down.
Then you were employed by the Tung Wah Hospital ?
A.-They engaged me but I can't write and so I didn't dare to do it.
Q.-You dare to take the money--answer the question?
A.--My brother does it. He does it properly.
Q. You dont dare to do the work but you are bold enough to go and take the money?
A. I do receive it but I give it to my brother.
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Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Does the Tung Wah Hospital know that your younger brother does the work?
A.-They do.
Q. Do you ever go to the mortuary
A.-I do at night.
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