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Wong Kong Ying et al

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<p>Q. 34 They were pretty well reduced to rice and cabbage? One of them mentioned cabbage, did you see cabbage?
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</p><p>A. Yes.
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</p><p>Q. 35 Going on for four weeks?
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</p><p>A. Three weeks.
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</p><p>Q. 36 Rice, very refined?
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</p><p>A. Yes, just the white rice.
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</p><p>Q. 37 The best part of the food is taken out and thrown away?
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</p><p>A. Yes. The groceries were delayed a little. The Maquinna did not call, when I think back, from Saturday to Wednesday.
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</p><p>Q. 38 During the last three weeks, even the last two weeks, did you notice anything particular about these men?
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</p><p>A. I was down in Vancouver for Christmas, from the 20th December to the 4th January; only there a couple of days; went down to Vancouver; went up again on the 12th. I got up to Camp and they remarked about being low in groceries. I went over to Sechart. I figured the Maquinna had been in; going to bring them back. The Maquinna didn't call in back until the following Wednesday. I wasn't there for two weeks and a half.
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</p><p>Q. 39 Did you notice any change in the men?
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</p><p>A. Not particularly. They are always more or less the same.
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</p><p>Q. 40 Were they working?
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</p><p>A. Working days they could work; didn't work very often in the rain.
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</p><p>Q. 41 The Chinamen are responsible for their own food supplies?
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</p><p>A. Yes, they have to do their own ordering.
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</p><p>Q. 42 Had there been any trouble about the finances to get food supplies?
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</p><p>A. Maybe there has.
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</p><p>Q. 43 Hasn't it been rather chronic?
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</p><p>A. It was for some time; got it straightened away; very good this last little while.
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</p><p>Q. 44 We will go back to October. Were you at the camp when Corporal Dunbar was there?
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</p><p>A. Yes, I was.
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</p><p>Q. 45 Food supplies were pretty low then?
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</p><p>A. They were a bit that way.
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</p><p>BC Archives GR-0431/Box 13 File 6/BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL./Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.
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