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Q. Is that Chinese a foreman or an Interpreter ?
A.-Well, he seems like a foreman. He has some iron things for putting in the drains. He is not an Interpreter.
Q.-Well, how does he break the drains?
A.—There is a notice to me telling me to repair a drain, so I get somebody to repair it. I know clearly myself that it is put right-that it is repaired, a new one put in; and the next day he will say it is broken. I go and look at it, and really it is broken, but it is a
new mouth.
Q.--Well, it might have been broken by somebody else and not by that foreman?
A.-How is it. when I get somebody else to make it, it is not right, but when I get Sam Iu, it is right? He tells me to deal with Sam Iu.
The Chairman.-Who tells you?
A.--Cullen,
395.—Q.-Does Cullen himself tell you to deal with Sam In?
A. Yes, he does, with Sam Iu and Tsang Ying.
Q. Did Cullen tell you this himself? He told it to you?
A. Yes, without an interpreter
395.—Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-Did he speak to you in Chinese, or in English?
A.—English, “ Better get Sam Iu. He is the man to do with the drains, or Tsang
Ying."
The Chairman.--When did he tell you this, more than once, or several times?
A.-It
It seems to me more than once.
Q. When did he last tell you this?
A-At the end of last Chinese year, rather about the second of the Chinese month.
Q-What month?
A. Of the last moon, the 12th moon.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-What property was that?
A-No. 3 Ormsby Villas, Kowloon.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-Did he call at your house, or did you go to Ormsby Villas to meet him?
A. He constantly comes to my office to find me.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Where is your office?
A.-Des Voeux Road Central, No. 14.
The Chairman. Do you live at No. 14 Des Voeux Road, or is that your office?
A. No, I do not live there.