8234
998.
8134
What I want to understand is what your business is. Do
you mean to say you have a gang of men who work under
you, and you take contracts, or something of that sort ?
No, I do not take contracts.
Are you engaged by a steamship Company, or by
contractors, to go on board and work?
8235
A.
No, I am engaged by the ship.
A.
Mr Lau Chu Pak:-
8235
The Chairman:~8236 And do you bring your own gang to work under you ?
A.
I alone go - no gang.
8237 Q.
A.
8238
8236
Well then, you have no Hong name, or anything of that 9137
sort
NO.
Now we understand, Wong Loi, that you live at Tai Hang 8138 village ?
That is your regular home, isnt it?
A.
Yea.
9
Q.
A.
Yes.
Q.
8240
8239
Well, we are told, and we know a great deal about thin (240
business, that there has been considerable trouble in
the Tai Hang village, with the Sanitary Inspector, the
last few weeks ↑
A.
Yes.
8241
A.
8241
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
TITTIC.O. 537
Now we want to find out if the Inspector has been
unreasonable in the way he has been carrying out his
duties, and that being so, as you have had something to
do with the man, we want you to tell us quite truth-
fully, exactly what you know about the matter ↑
There is nothing about the Inspectors, except that
they came and examined the pigstyes, and told me to
•
tell the people to clean the place, and not have them
dirty that we were to make the place clean, so that
the Medical officer of Health, when he came, would not
see them dirty, and the simps, for holding the pigs'
urine, were to be made clean, and the ground was to be
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