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A.-Well, it was just this, that they had passed through the hands of Sam Iu.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-For the use of the Inspectors?
A. For the Inspectors to go on trips, and so on.
The Chairman.—Little excursions about the Island ?
A. Probably that was it.
Q. That would run into a good deal of money, wouldn't it?
A.-Well, it may have been several years probably. My foki said he could not do it.
Q.—Well, if you are a shareholder, were you not very angry with your foki if a man owes you money for several years, and comes to pay it, and your foki does not want the trouble of making up the bill?
A.-No, that is not it. That was about hearing matters here probably-this Commission.
Q. What has the Commission to do with Sam Iu coming to ask for bill?
A. Well, those accounts were probably for the use of the Inspectors.
The Interpreter-He actually said "do the accounts"
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-You mean to say this, that Sam Iu heard of the appoint- ment of the Commission, and he went to the steam launches shop, and asked them to turn up all the old accounts and do them so as not to shew that those steam launches were for the use of the Inspectors?
A. So the Commission would not know. I think that was it. I did not hear Sam Iu speak. I heard my foki speak. I said that all our books had been taken away
Q.-What is the address of that steam launch shop?
A.-I dont know. At the right hand side of Central Market.
The Chairman.-Who are the other partners in the business?
A.-A great number of people.
Q. Well, who are they? Has not Sam Iu a share?
A. Sam Iu has no share.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-Is it 32 Des Voeux Road Central ?
A. I dont remember. I must look and see.
The Chairman. It is quite close to your own place?
A. Yes.
Q-Well, did you, being a shareholder, agree with Sam Iu's suggestion that the books should be altered.
A. Certainly, I did not want it. If I had wished it, I would not have told- (pointing to Mr. Lau).
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