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I very much doubt it,
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Mr Lau Chu Pak:-
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Mr Shelton Hooper:-
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Because it is a very important point shis, in
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connection with the technical evidence which has been
givan, and also my experience of floors. Is it admitted
that in most of the floors on the lower levels, they
had got damp at the bottom, but there may be 44 inchoa
of solid good concrete on the top, that is what I news
In that case, the floor should then not be condemnéă,
One might make a note of the condition of that floor,
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and two years afterwards, see how it is getting on. One
very often sees a ground surface, which is not absolutely
smooth. " maan the surface of a Chinese house, not
back yard. Strictly speaking, it should be mooth, But
one very often has to let a house pass because it is
scarcely bad enough. At the present time, even, I tell
Inspectoru that it is not worth while to serve a
notice now, but when it is worth while later on te
serve a notice, and see they make a good job of it. After all, dont you think the Plague Inspectors might|41st
have made mistakes, which a competent man might not
have made t
I dont think that, at any rate to a great extent, there
has been hardship inflicted through wilful mistakes being made by Inspectors. I think they do their best.
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Through comparative ignorance. They know something of
their work, but I will say that had we a properly
qualified engineer, for example, like Mr Perkins,
instead of Plague Inspectors, to examine concrete, one man to do it instead of half a dozen men, the work might have been doge with much less fricțion, and much
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