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| − | Q. 67 Did you go out with Colquohn when he was in about the 14th of November?
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| − | Q. 68 Was he in again since that date?
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| − | A. In before Christmas.
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| − | Q. 69 Did you go out with him there?
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| − | A. Yes.
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| − | Q. 70 Did you know anything about the food situation when he went out?
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| − | A. We had a hard time getting out. It would be about the 20th or 22nd when we left. I gave a fellow money to go over to Sechart to get the Chinese foodstuffs for Christmas. I understand these didn't come up
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| − | Q. 71 I take it being your own job........
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| − | A. The only thing I am interested in is getting the stuff overfrom Sechart and getting the bolts in the water.
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| − | Q. 72 Who sends in the returns to the Company of the earnings of these boys?
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| − | A. They do themselves. They keep track of their own. The only place as a record of what they get paid for is the Government scale.
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| − | Q. 73 What happens if one hundred cords of shingle bolts sometimes go wrong, when there is a shortage? Who goes short on that?
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| − | A. I cannot tell you. There is an argument of right now.
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| − | Q. 74 You still leave us at sea on that. We will see what these Chinese boys, what these earnings would have been for the month of September?
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| − | A. There is no way of figuring that out. Stuff is cut in the bush; they get paid for the stuff when it gets in the water; it is up to Calhoun to get transportation to where he had been selling; lost a lot down there. Whether he will pay I cannot say. The way it looks right now, it looks as if we shall lose.
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