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Q-Do you know a man called Sang Tam Fook?
A.-No.
Q-Did you not tell one of the Sanitary Officials that you had been obliged to engage that other contractor to do that limewashing, and that it cost you four times as much as your other man had cost you?
A.
-I did say so.
Q.- -Who did you tell ?
A.-Carter. At least, we told him. It was I and my son.
My son went and told
him.
Q.-Is your son in the Government service?
A. Yes, he is with Mr. Thomson, Solicitor.
Q-What is his name?
A.-Wong Po Kai.
Q-And did he not tell Mr. Carter that you had been obliged to use that other contractor from Stanley Street?
A. Yes.
Q. When did you use that other limewasher ?
A. We did not engage him. He was too dear.
Q-What did the other man want to charge you?
A.-$40.
Q. And you did the work for $8 ?
A. Yes.
Mr. Shelton Hooper. Did the other man tell you why he wanted to charge you so much?
ear ?
A.- -He said "
my expenses are large ".
The Chairman.-Why were his expenses so heavy?
A.--Because there were presents to be made.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Who to?
A.-I dont know to whom.
The Chairman. Did he tell you that yourself,-you yourself hear that with your own
A.-I was speaking with him about the limewashing, and then he told me.