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Q. Do you think you get your money's worth?
A.-I dont think it was. There was nothing particular he would be able to do.
312.-Q.-But you still thought, seeing who Lo Man Kai was, that it would be worth paying him $5 a mouth if he asked for it?
A.-Well, when I went to the Sanitary Board Office he would interpret immediately for me and give me a place to sit down.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Suppose Lo Man Kai asked you for $5 and you refused it are you not afraid that he would do sormething to hurt your business?
A-No, but he asked for it and we were on good terms with him.
Mr. Shelton Hooper. Did you not think that you might lose your contract for blood and hair if you did not pay him that $5 a month?
A.--No.
Mr. Lau Cha Pak.-In the same book for 1903 in connection with the Slaughter- house, there is another entry of $5.67 paid to coloured man. What is that for?
A.-I dont know about that.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-And is there not a payinent to Lo Man Kai on the 20th day of the 5th moon to the hand of Ah Yap ?
A. Well, I am afraid I have forgotten it.
Q.-Who was Ah Yap?
A.—He was a fellow villager- brother.
The Chairman.-What is his business here ?
A. He is dead now. He was in our employ.
Mr. Humphreys.-I suppose Lo Man Kai would keep you posted as to what contracts were going in the office for this $5 a month ?
A.-No, that is not the way of it.
Q.-Well, what was the way of it ?
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-When I had to go up the Sanitary Board Office if there were any matters he would let me know and he would interpret for me at once and I did not have to wait.
Q.-Did you write up the books for the seventh day of the eleventh moon of 1904 ?
(No answer.)
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-(showing witness the books) Is this book in your handwriting? What account book is this?
A. The Cash Book.
Q. In connection with the contract?
A.-No, my own business.
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