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C 274<br />
Mr. TEH KE was called.<br />
4492. Chairman.-What is your name?-TEH KE.<br />
4493. Are you a Hokkien ?-Yes.<br />
4494. China-born ?-Yes.<br />
4495. How old are you ?-Forty-five.<br />
4496. How long have you been in the Federated Malay States ?-About<br />
twenty-nve years.<br />
4497. What is your employment ?-I was a miller, now 1 Bm working<br />
as a clerk.<br />
4498. Are you an opium-smoker?-Yes.<br />
4499. How long have you been smoking ?-Thirty ycar5.<br />
4500. Are you a heavy smoker ?-Only a little.<br />
4501. How much a day?-Two packets a day.<br />
4502. Have you ever smoked more than that?-Yes, when 1 had<br />
money.<br />
4503. Have your ever smoked less than two packds a day?-No, nev«;r.<br />
4504. What wages do you get now?-$30 a month, with food.<br />
4505. Do you think opium-smoking is a bad habit ?-It is a' bad thing.<br />
4506. Then it would be a good thing for the Government to stop it?-<br />
Yes ..<br />
4507. How would you get on if they stopped it ?-I would be in trouble.<br />
4508. Si" David Galloway.-What did you begin smoking for ?-l was<br />
invited by my friend to smoke opium.<br />
4509. You were not sick ?-I smoked opium because· I was sick.<br />
4510. What was your sickness ?-I was suffering from colic.<br />
4511. Have you any suggestions as to how we could stop this bad<br />
habit ?-I think it would be a good thing to mix opium with medicine to get<br />
rid of this bad habit.<br />
4512. What sort of medicine ?-I do not know what sort of medicine.<br />
4513. Do you think it would be a good thing to take the thumb-prints<br />
of every opium-smoker ?-I think it would be very hard.<br />
4514. You would not like to put your thumb-prints down because you<br />
are an opium-smoker ?-Yes, I am a smoker. I wish to know why should<br />
the thumb-print be affixed.<br />
4515. Because we do not propose 'to allow anyone who has not done<br />
so to smoke opium ?-It will be a difficult matter.<br />
4516. You do not like the idea ?-No.<br />
4517. Do you think any of the other Chinese would like it ?-No.<br />
451&. Can you give any reason why they would not like it ?-It will<br />
be very difficult to buy opium if he wishes to smoke more or smoke less.<br />
4519. What is the objection that the Chinese have to thumb-prints?<br />
It will be a disgrace to the smoker.<br />
4520. That is the idea of the Chinese about thumb-prints, that they are<br />
a disgrace ?-Yes.<br />
4521. M". I elf.-Did anybody ask you to come here ?-I was invited<br />
by Mr. LIM TEOW CHONG.<br />
This.concluded Mr. TEH KE's evidence.<br />
The Committee adjourned.
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