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A. To the Secretary, and passed on to me.
(Witness explains plan, with reference to boundaries.)
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-What are those little red things you quoted just now?
A. I have seen a pillar there.
Q.—I should imagine it was a boundary.
A. I have not really thoroughly enquired into whether this is a boundary or not, because the whole of this portion of the cemetery has never been used, with the one excep- tion you quoted, since 1895. Therefore it is my duty now to see that there is no encroach- ment over these boundaries.
Q-I put it to you, Mr. Bryan, that you dont know from your own knowledge, the extent and area of that cemetery, and that you cannot tell me, as a surveyor, that it is shewn on that plan?
A. That is quite so.
(Plan put in and marked "Chinese cemetery, Mount Davis, surveyed in 1892 ".)
The Chairman.-I want that put in as an exhibit, Mr. Bryan.
A.--I dont believe any of those plans are correct. They are all old.
Q.-It doesn't matter for that. You have no other plan of this?
A.-No. I believe you have a copy of that. I sent it up to you some
The Chairman.-Not as an exhibit.
time ago.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-It is of very little use to you?
A. No use at all.
Q. You have nothing of that on a larger scale ?
A.-No, Sir.
The Chairman.-Not even the terraces, or ordinary grave spaces?
A.-No, Sir.
Q.And such a plan is not in existence?
A.-Not in existence.
Because they were asked for some five or six years ago.
208 and 209.-INSPECTOR CONOLLY, sworn :--
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-I will put it this way. Is there any check at all that the corpse has been buried in the section for which they have paid?
A.-Oh yes, I have that.
Q-You have that?
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