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Q.--Not since that time you were fined?
A.-No.
Mr. Shelton Hooper. Did you appear at the Magistracy, and say you had whitewash- el your place?
A. I shewed the two bills to the Magistrate.
The Chairman.-You yourself?
A.-It was said I had not whitewashed. I said "Your Worship, I have two bills". He said "Oh, but you have not whitewashed ".
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Did they say you had not whitewashed at all, or that you had not whitewashed properly?
A. That I had not whitewashed.
The Chairman.-Who said so?
A.-The Inspector said so at the Magistracy.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Who was the Magistrate?
A.—I dont know him. It was a thinnish man, in the small Court.
The Chairman. Would you know him? If I ask Mr. Kemp to see you, could you know him?
Mr. Lau Chu Pak-Is it Mr. Kemp?
A.-I dont remember exactly.
The Chairman.-You have very often been to the Police Court, have you?
Q-You cannot remember at all that day you were taken before the Magistrate ? I can send for the books, but it will take a long time if we have to look up for two
years.
A. The year before last, at the end of the year.
Q-Alright. Well, if I want you again, I will send for you. I am much obliged to you for what you have told me. You have nothing to be afraid of, and dont go and speak about this outside.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun. -Have you got an entry of that fiue of yours, the payment?
A.--No, I consider that is done with when I pay it. I dont put down my out expenses.
109 and 113 ---Memorandum by MR. E. OSBORNE.
1. Having been a Member of the Sanitary Board when the Public Health Ordinance. was under discussion 1 am familiar with the controversy that took place concerning it, and for the reason that drastic measures seemed imperative I, with others, agreed in the main with its provisions."