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Q-But that is not an answer to my question. When the Sanitary Board informs you that the work has not been properly done, dont they specify in what particulars the work is not properly done?
A. They only tell the limewasher..
Q-Don't you send in a written notice within three days that you have limewashed -a notice in writing?
A. Yes certainly. Well, I dont take it in nyself, but I hand the matter over to the limewasher to take it in.
Q. Who gives notice to the Sanitary Board,-do you or does the limewasher?
A.-The one who takes the contract for the limewashing, the master.
Q. And then supposing that work is not properly done, who gets the notice from the Sanitary Board? Do you, or does the limewasher ?
A. The limewasher.
Q.-But as the owner of the property, aren't you bound to give notice?
A.-It is not I that writes it. It is altogether handed over to the limewashers, for them to do the thing properly.
Q.--And therefore you are going by what the limewashers tell you that he has done it properly, and that the Inspector says it is not done properly? But you have never seen a
notice to that effect?
A.-I tell the rent collector to go and look at it.
Q.-Does he mean after the limewashing has been done?
A. It is the rent collector that attends to the bargain money paid out by me. It is left to the discretion of the rent collector, as to whether he goes afterwards to see whether it is properly limewashed or not.
Q-Have you ever been summoned for not doing it properly?
A.-No.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak. Is there not a man named Sing Hop on the other side, who can always do the work to the satisfaction of the Inspector there?
A. Well, I handed it over to him, and there was one occasion, there was a porcelain shop, where there was a good deal of trouble about it. They said they had moved out all their things, and they did not dare to move them back again.
Q-Was that place limewashed by Sing Hop?
A. Yes.
Mr. Shelton Hooper. And was that a cause of the trouble, because he did it?
A. The tenant came and told my rent collector, and my rent collector told me, that the tenant complained that the Inspector wished the things moved out,—the bricks and so on.
Q. When, after it was limewashed ?
.-No, moved away to be limewashed.