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13538 Q.
It is a Meeting of Plague Ins, actors ↑
It is a Mecting called by them.
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By whom t
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The Inspectors.
And anybody else ↑
The President and Secretary.
Then who are the arrangements made with ↑
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I dont understand your question. Matters of interest
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are discussed, and certain plans of action are decided
on. I oant repeat to you those things up here. I can
only refer you to the Minute Book. For exampl, at the
close of a Plague Epidemic, it is quite a natural thing
to discuss what we are to do now to keep our staff
going on.
Mr Lau Chu Pak:-
So every year, after a plague season, you send the
Inspectors out to examine every house ?
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A.
No, not necessarily. I made a special point last year,
at the end of the Plague season, to have a large number
of floors in the colony examined, with a view to
seeing whether they were good or bad. If they were
good, they were reinstated at the expense of the
Government
If they were bad, then they had to be
made right by the owner.
Have you made any distinction as between floors made 13.543
two or three years ago 1
I have made no distinction at all.
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44 Q.
Not even if the concrete was laid last year?
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A.
I have no intention of making any distinction whatever
between one house and another. At the end of last
year's plague season, what I wanted to see was whether
those houses were reasonably ratproof.
135
A.
Dont you think that is a hardship on the householder ↑
Almost everything in the Ordinance is a hardship.
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