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Q.-What are you doing now?
A.—I have been three months surveying in the Western district.
Q.-On what work?
A. Roads and Drains and so on.
Q.--Having been at these works you know very little about the department, 1
suppose?
A.--Very little.
Q.-You signed that Memorial?
A. Yes.
Q.-What was it you objected to?
A.-I objected to it as being a general thing levelled at the whole of the department, not for myself, because I can stand before any one.
Q. -What Contractors do you generally have to do with?
A.-Do you mean these last three months?
Q.-Yes, not on your special works.
A.-The first was LAI KEE; he was to do my general jobbing work.
Q.-Then you have other Contractors?
A. I am doing a drain in Robinson and Castle Roads, and the Contractor is TSANG AFAT. A dust-bin in Gap Street, the Contractor is YEE HING, he lives in Well- ington Street.
Q.-This man who is doing the drain, is he a good man? Does he understand the
work?
A.—Well, I don't know whether he understands the work; he is very dilatory.
Q.-Have you had much trouble?
A. Only being behind hand. You see these Contractors have a system of sublet- ting the work, and that humbugs the man who is looking after it, because if you find fault with them, these men who sub-contract take up their tools and off they go, and all I have to do is to fall back on the Contractor, and he will send other men.
be four sub-contractors on that drain.
There may
Q.-And
you don't know who they are?
A.-No, all I know is AFAT. If I want anything I go to him.
Q.-There was a good deal of trouble with the Praya works?
A.-Only on one section. I had no trouble with any section; that was between the Bank and Murray Wharf, and then from the Harbour Master's to Wing Lok Street.
I had no trouble there.