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The Chairman.-Going back to concreting, Mr. Lemm, there is one point I would like you to explain. Although I think you understand it, section 111 says (quotes) and so it goes on to define what is good concrete, and then it says (quotes). In section 112, it says (quotes). Do you understand by that expression "make good", that if they write and tell you that the concrete is bad, and if they say "make good "you have to renew it?
A.-Oh no, repair it.
Q-No, but I understand from what you said, that if they send in a notice to make good, you renew it as a matter of course. How do you read that clause, if it is perished, and you have to make good. Does it mean if it is absolutely perished, you would entirely
renew it ?
A. Yes.
Q-If they said it was so damaged that it could not be made to remain by repairing, you would absolutely renew it?
A. Yes, if it was all perished.
Mr. Humphreys.-Did the Municipality, what answers to the Sanitary Board, in Sydney, serve notices on householders or tenants?
A.I dont remember notices of this description being served.
Q. What body of men have they got in Sydney that answer to the District Inspectors in Hongkong?
A. They have Inspectors.
Q-But supposing that those Inspectors served notices from the Board, or from the Body that acted in the capacity of the Sanitary Board---
A.-The Municipal Council.
Q.-Do you think that those Inspectors would be allowed for one moment to alter those notices of their own habit?
A.-I dont think so.
Q.-But they do that here ?
A.—I have never heard of such a case here.
Q-Do
you mean to say that you have not received a notice that has had the printing altered in writing?
A.-Yes, explaining something.
Q-How do these things happen?
A.-Emanating from the Secretary or someone.
Q-Aren't you aware that that emanates from the Sanitary Inspectors ?
A.—I dont know.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Have you never seen a notice, the wording of which says, copied from the Ordinance, to "make good", and the words "make good" struck out, and the word "reconcrete written in ?
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