2927.
ir Yung Wa Chun:-
2:611
A.
72.4.
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Were you asked to do this work, or did you only do it
858 on your own account?
I mentioned it to Dr Macfarlane. I saw the carpenters
were running about doing nothing, and it struck me,
seeing that I was in a Disinfecting Station, that I
might put two and two together and make things pay,
the same as you have to do at homein Glasgow or
Edinburgh. I bought wood for the Government and worked
the thing up,
and trained the men how to cut the wood.
We were really making it a training depot for the
Kowloon Docks. As I say, Mr Chairman, and gentlemen, I
am getting £20 a year less than men who have got no
qualifications whatever.
Then you did that work with the knowledge of Dr 23672
Macfarlane ?
I did.
A.
73 Q.
He knew all about it a
A.
He knew all about it.
74
And he approved of it ?
A.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
GO. 537
37
RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
OUT PERMISSION OF THE
COLONOTOGRAPHICALL
PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE
WITH-
75-4.
A.
The Chairwan : -
76
A.
He did approve of it, and I submit that some of my
work -
I have an estimate of some of the stuff nere,
and I can build a dust cart for $105, and I can put
it on the road and run it for 12 months and the
expanse is nil.
Have you any idea how much it costs the Government *75*
for the other carts built in Hongkong ?
I havnt any idea, Sir, but I have one idea, I did see
a pair of wheels for a cart that cost something like
$226. I pre arad an estimate and told the man how I
wanted them to be built, something like they are used
in Victoria. My cost was $40, and that was pooh poohed.
Fause they were not strong enough ?
Because I think they were too cheap, Mr Chairman. It
low
was the absurdity of the price, $40.