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Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Have you anything more about concrete ?
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-No, one minute. You say you laid the tiles yourself?
A. Yes.
Q.-You bought the tiles yourself?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. What is the name of those tiles?
A.—I did not buy any poor material. They were what are called superior one and a half inch tiles.
Q. What is the name, do you know the name of the place where you bought those tiles ?
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A. I dont remember now which shop it was. They did not say that the tiles were broken, they wanted to examine the concrete. The concrete had to be relaid.
The Chairman. They wanted to see if there was any damage underneath the tiles, is that what you mean?
A. Yes.
Q. So they made a hole four feet square in the middle of your floor, and did not fill it up again for a month ? ·
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More than a month. More than a month afterwards, the paper came saying it was to be relaid,-reconcreted.
Q. When they made that hole, two feet or three feet square, whatever it is, in your floor, did they take the whole piece ont like this? (indicating) or did they lift it out like that, (indicating), and leave the inner piece?
A.-Well, they did not take it out, but they took it up and put it in again.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-It must have been taken out, in order to have been put in again.
The Chairman. Did they lift it up like that, and put it back?
A. They turned it over, and looked, and then put it down again.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Now, when they took out that, did it all crumble to pieces, or did they put it back as a block?
A.-Well, a whole lump.
Q. It did not become disintegrated ?
The Chairman. It did not break? They dug a piece out like this, and they turned it over like that, and they put it back again, and it did not break ?
A.—It was like what we Chinese would call one of those big frying pans.
Q.--And they told you a month later, it was all right ?
A.—No, a month later they told me to reconcrete it, more than a month after.
Q. And did you have to reconcrete the whole of that floor?
A. Yes, the whole shop.