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A.-I dont remember any specially. I know the words are eliminated sometimes- whole lines.
Q.--As au Architect, we won': limit it to floors-but supposing you are surveying dilapidation, you have a lease before you, in which the tenant undertakes to give the building back in good repair. You go round and find a bit of the window frame rotten. Under the lease, you say make good?
A. Yes.
Q.-It does not mean the whole window frame?
A. Certainly not.
Q.-Make good means the min.mum of repair necessary to make good the damage ?
A. Yes.
261.-G. A, WOODCOCK, recalled —
Mr. Shelton Hooper.--When any letters come addressed, to the Sanitary Board, who opens them?
A.-Usually one of the Chinese clerks.
The Chairman.-A letter to the Secretary is opened by a Chinese clerk ?
A.-Is opened by a Chinese clerk.
Mr Shelton Hooper.-What Chinese clerk would that be?
A.A man named Tseng.
Q. What position does he hold ?
A.--No. 3 about, I should say.
Q-Supposing they are of a private nature, to a certain extent, or contained a complaint against any officer, have you ever had such a one sent to you, which has been opened by a Chinese clerk?
A.--I recollect two or three of a private nature concerning myself brought to me by Chinese clerks, but they are at once brought to me by the man. I do not recollect any complaints being made against anyone, brought by a Chinese clerk.
Q.--He opens all letters addressed to the Secretary. Now, supposing some of those letters were about business appertaining to the Medical Officer of Health, would he sort out the letters, those which would have to be dealt with by the Medical Officer of Health or would he give the whole of them to you, to let you sort them out to the sub-departments ?
A.All letters addressed to me, after they have been opened, are brought to me. They are entered in a book, directly they are received by the clerk.
Q.-Before he opens them?
A. When a letter comes, this man opens them first of all, and he stamps them.