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Mr. Shelton Hooper. On that, who does the work to-day that the new assistant engineer would do? Who do you have in your mind from the Sanitary Board who does the work that the assistant engineer would do?
A-I presume that the Senior Inspectors do it, or whatever the Senior Officers are called.
Q.-The Senior Inspectors! Then, do you think that the Senior Inspectors there are qualified to do the work that an official whom you would designate as assistant engineer would do?
A.-Some of the duties, yes, some of them probably no.
Q.-Well then, why, the duties that they could not do, who are they being done by to-day, do you know?
A.--I cannot tell.
Mr. Shelton Hooper. That is all. I can quite understand it.
29, 47 and 50.--ARTHUR TURNER, recalled:
Mr. Humphreys.-You have had a good deal of experience, Mr. Turner, havn't you, in regard to the working of section 175 of the Ordinance ?
A. Yes.
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Q. How many thousands of dollars do you imagine that that has cost your clients ?
A.-I have not been able to go into it and pick out all the figures, but there are a number of isolated cases in which no accounts have been kept. You cannot look into every little contract of that sort, but it has run into a big figure.
Q-Roughly say?
A.-Well, roughly $50,000.
Q-Just your clients?
A. -Yes, our clients only. In some cases, they are big sums-$9,000.
Q.-Could you give us two or three big items ?
A. Yes. For instance, your own houses at Hung Hom. That was an item of over $9,000.
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The Chairman. What was that particular property, Mr. Turner?
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A.-Market Street and Bulkley Street. 28 houses. It cost over $9,000. Another
Siemssen's, 16 houses. That cost about $3,000.
Mr. Humphreys. Any more big ones?
A.-I dont remember any more big ones. I remember a case in which we were retained by Sassoons, but it must have cost them certainly $8,000, if not more, that was in Macgregor Street, Wanchai.