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3309. If we stopped opium smoking, do you think there is enough<br />
non-smoking labour to go round ?-I do not think so.<br />
33\0. If you stopped employing opium-smoking coolies now have you<br />
sufficient labour left ?-No. .<br />
yet.<br />
331 r. Could you get ,sufficient non-smoking labour?- I have not tried<br />
3312. Do you think you could get sufficient labour ?-I cannot tell.<br />
3313: When you take on labour, do you ask the labourer whether he is<br />
an opium-smoker or not ?-They are recruited through my kapalas.<br />
,3314. Do your kapalas smoke opium ?-No.<br />
3315. As to the assistants in your pawn-broking shops; do any of them<br />
smoke opium ?-None of them. .<br />
3316. Would you turn them out if they did smoke ?-No, I would not.<br />
3317. 'But you would prefer them not to smoke?-Yes.<br />
3318. Why do you prefer non-smokers as assistants in a pawn-broking<br />
shop ?-Because the smoker would lose my time.<br />
3319. You don't think he would become dishonest ?-No.<br />
3320. But he might wish to increase the money available to buy opium.<br />
Would not he steal your goods then ?-I have not tried that.<br />
3321. Supposing a very smart opium-smoker with long experience of<br />
pawn-broking work came to you for employment, would you engage him or<br />
not ?-I would.<br />
3322. You would think hfs experience in pawn-broking and his general<br />
smartness outweighed his opium smoking?-Yes, provided he. did not<br />
swindle me.<br />
3323. Do you think he would swindle you ?-If he was clever, he<br />
would command a big salary and there would be no need for him to swindle<br />
me.<br />
3324. Mr. Lim Nee Soon.-How many times did you try to give up<br />
opium smoking ?-I have actually given up the habit twice.<br />
3325. When was the first time ?-After I had taken to the habit two<br />
years.<br />
3326. Where did you make the attempt ?-In Perak.<br />
3327. And the second time ?-In the same place.<br />
3328. Where did you acquire your opium habit, in China or in Singapore<br />
?-In Perak.<br />
3329. Mr. McLean.-Do coolies who smoke opium often ask for<br />
ao.vances ?-Coolies, as a rule, ask for advances, whether they are smokers<br />
or not. .<br />
This concluded Mr. LAM KAM'S evidence.<br />
The Conimittee adjourned.
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