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Q. And you find it is the same every where ?
A. Yes. If you will ask some other gentlemen, you will find they say the same.
Q. Can you give me the names of your contractors who suddenly found they could not do the work for $1, and had to charge $2,—the men who do it now?
A.-I must go back and look. I dont remember.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-It is not Foo Sik now?
A.-No.
The Chairman.-Small contractors, or sub-contractors ?
A. Yes.
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Mr. Humphreys.-Have you had to open up any spaces at the back of your Chinese houses, under section 175 ?
A.--I have not received any papers.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak. Have you ever received any notice to open the yard in any of your houses?
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Mr. Humphreys. By cutting away half of the kitchen space, from the floor to the roof?
A.--I have not personally received such a notice, but a number of my friends have.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Perhaps in your houses, there are already backyards?
A. —No. Well, I have one house that has no open space, but there is a lane at the back which is my private property.
Q.-About disinfection now-on one occasion an Inspector came to your house?
A. Yes.
Q.-In Castle Road.
A. Yes.
Q.-Did he knock at your door, or did he simply rush into your house?
A.--He did not knock, he rushed in.
Q.-Did the Inspector ring the bell ?
A. No. He slapped the door with his hand.
Q. And then, after he entered the house, what did he do?
A.-I was not there. My servants would not let him come in, so he made a dis- turbance.
Q-What was the disturbance?
A-Ile left. On the next time I was there. He came in that way, and when he saw ane, that I could speak to him in English, then he was not so rough.