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of the nuisance in the
usual way.
/ Signed, Joseph Sooth Overseer of Works
Tue Copy)
M
Colonial Secretary.
Gurge
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Duddell examined on oath states:-
I have had twelve years experience of Chinese buildings in this colony. I examined the walls and general construction of the tenements now complained of, this morning at the request of the Defendant. The walls of the upper story charged as being hollow are not so in fact.
The Chinese builders have attempted their usual style of building in some places, but generally, on cutting into the walls, I found them filled with...