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"every morning.
* Before ma、 sgd. Lau „hu Pak.
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24.1.07.
Signed in Chinese by
Ng Kwong.
*Interpreted to Ng Kwong this 28th January 19 J7
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sựd. J. Dyer Ball.
"Read over before the Commission and signed. 28.1.07.
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sgd. 3, A. Hewett, Chairman,
Is that correct !
Yes, it is.
Well, will you sign it ↑
Statement signed and certified.
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You say here, Ng Kwong, that you only had four days 22.694
The Chairman:-
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952.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
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notice before having to start work on your contract.
When did you send your tender, roughly
A.
About three weeks approximately, before.
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And you only had four days notice that your tender
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was accepted, and to make all your preparations ?
Yes.
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And you dont think that that was suff...ent ? It was a pressure of time.
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Just to enable me to understand whether it was toe 22-677 short notice or not, tell me what you had to do to get
your contract in working order. Had you to supply carts
and boats and coolies, and how much?
A.
I had to buy boats.
How many boats ?
A.
Pour. I had to engage 877 coolies, 12 foremen, foramen, rather. I had to buy so many materials,
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●verything that had to be employed, implements and so
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Baskets, bamboos, brushes, and so forth, and brooms ?
on.
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Yes.
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