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C 55<br />
Mr. TAN BOON TYE was caIled.<br />
854· Chairman.-What is your name ?-TAN BOON TYE.<br />
855· What is your efuployment ?-I was lately Manager of Messrs.<br />
Sime, Darby & Co., at J ohore; they closed their branch and I have started<br />
my own motor business.<br />
856. What are you, China-born ?-No, Straits-born.<br />
857. What is YOllr age ?-44.<br />
858. Have YOll any views on the opium habit ?-No; I have no ideas<br />
at all.<br />
859· You have got some employees?-Two years ago. when I was<br />
on a Rubber-Estate at Senai (IS miles from Johore Bharu and 2t miles from<br />
the Railway Station by a foot-path) I had Chinese employees.<br />
8S9A. You have nobody in your employ now?-No.<br />
860. When you had employees were many of them opium smokers?<br />
About 40 per cent.<br />
861. What were they?-Mostly Khehs and Cantonese.<br />
862. The coolies in a place like that would have no Chinese theatres<br />
or any other amusements after the day's work ?-No.<br />
863. Dr. Galloway.-Is it your experience that the further up in the<br />
jungle they are, the greater proportion of them smoke ?-Yes.<br />
864. Chairman.-Did you supply the opium to them ?-Yes.<br />
865. Did you make a profit on it ?-No, I sold according to the<br />
Government rate.<br />
866. Where did you get it from ?-From the Government Monopolies<br />
at Johore.<br />
867. You took it lip-country at your own expense?-Yes and retailed<br />
it in the estate shops at 40 cents a 3-hoon packet.<br />
cash.<br />
868. Did they pay cash for it or have it debited in the books ?-AII<br />
869. Were many of them very heavy smokers, by their purchases-?<br />
The coolies who were getting 80 cents were aIlowed one packet a day; but<br />
when they drew their pay they would buy 5 or 6 packets.<br />
870. And would you, the employer, let them do tha't? Because,<br />
surely, according to the general view, that would have spoilt their labour?<br />
The mandor used to buy 100 packets at a time and sell to them.<br />
871. Did you ever have to discharge anybody because he was an<br />
opium smoker?-Yes.<br />
872. That would not be a smoker of a few pipes a day or a packet<br />
a day; that would be a heavy smoker ?-Yes. .<br />
873. Were the mandors themselves much of opium smokers ?-No.<br />
874. What were the mandors, also Khehs?-Yes.<br />
875. Mr. Lim Net Soon.-Did you have any Hokkiens among your<br />
men?-No; at Johore I had only Khehs and Macaos.
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