Made, or of which plant.
A. I did not put them in any bill.
Mr. Gomperts: Why did you give them to him? Was he a customer of yours?
A. Considered them as provisions and I just gave them. He had not been a customer that year. He was last year.
Mr. Thomson: When did he begin?
A. Last year.
Mr. Gomperts: Do you mean last Christmas or the Christmas before when you gave them to him?
Mr. Thomson: At what time did he begin to patronise your shop?
A. I must look at my book to know. I have got my book here.
Mr. Gomperts: Was it before or after this present?
A. After.
Q. Before you gave him this present, he had dealt with you for poultry?
A. No.
Q. Why did you give him the present?
A. I wanted him to make out a plan about the ladder, so I gave him the present to draw a plan about the ladder.
Mr. May read the second charge and answer.
Q. You have mentioned the matter of the staircase; now will you tell the council about the staircase?
A. The Inspector first came to my shop and I spoke to his interpreter. I was asked whether there was a plan for my staircase and I said "No." Then he walked away.
Q. What were you doing to the staircase at the time?
A. I had no intention about it.
Q. At the time the inspector visited your shop, were you doing anything with your staircase?
A. Making some alteration in it for the going up and down. You were making some alteration in it, isn't right?
A. (continued) Then he sent someone to my shop in the course of a few days and this man said I was to go up to the...