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A.-I get 7 or 8 contractors to tender. Those men I usually employ are generally fairly reasonable and as a rule they are lowest.
Q. But there are other men who work for you ?
A. Yes, Hung Cheong, Third Street, I think. He built the Ho Miu Ling Hospital.
Q-Now, going to the Ho Min Ling Hospital, you sent in plans and they were
passed?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you build it according to the plans?
A. Yes, practically.
Q.—Why did they make you pull down a wall in front?
A. They said there was not sufficient light in the basement.
Q. Could they not have seen that, if an expert had examined the plans when they went in ?
A. Certainly.
Q. And they actually approved of it?
A.-Approved of it.
Q.-And when it was completed, they made you pull down the wall, although you complied with the plan?
A-Yes.
Q.-Did you think that was a good case for complaint--that they approved and passed plans, and you carried them out, and were put to the extra expense of pulling the wall down again?
A. It was only a matter of $10), and I did not trouble.
Q.-You dont think it was in order?
A. It might have been objected to in the first place.
Q.-Supposing you had refused to pull that down ?
A.--They would not have passed my building.
Q-Although the building was built to plans that they had approved?
A. Yes.
The Chairman.-When did this case arise ?
A.-In connection with the Hc Miu Ling Hospital of Bonham Road.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Is this not actually what happened : That you sent in plans for the building, and you built it accordingly and the parapet wall accordingly?
A. Yes.