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Tsang Tim of No 9 Third Street, 1st floor, states:-
I am a subcontractor for linewashing. I generally work
for Tee Kam Kee. I also do a little limewashing work
for the "Sam Wo" woodyard at Wanchai. At the end of the
4th Chinese moon this year, I limewashed 210 floors for
The Kan Kee at West Point near Sailors Home. The work
was given to Tae Kam Kee by Mr Chan Chan Kam, and I got
it from Tae Kan Kee at 90 cents per floor. When the
work was done, notice was sent to the Sanitary Board
to have it passed. These floors are in No 9 Health
District, under the charge of Inspector Kelly. His
interpreter named Lo who used to live in the same street
with me,
came to my house in one afternoon at about 4
o'clock, when he asked me if the limewashing was done
by me. When I said yes, he told me that Inspector Kelly
wanted to see me at the office in the following afternoon. I went the next day to the Branch Office at
the appointed time, but. I did not see him. Next morning
at about 10 o'clock the interpreter met me in the
street and asked me why I did not go to see the
Inspector. I told him that I went to the Branch Office
and waited for the inspector, but he did not turn up.
The interpreter said it was not the Branch Office that the inspector wanted me to go to, but that the office in the inspector's own house. I went to the inspector's house No 28 Elgin Street, 2nd floor, at about 4 of the
same afternoon. I waited there for about half an hour,
when the inspector with his interpreter returned. The
inspector said that my limewashing work was not, properly done, the kitchens of those floors being too dark. He also asked me if I was aware of the usual
custom of paying 20 cents a floor to the inspector for such work. I said I could not afford to pay, as I only