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Mr. S. Ariptio

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Well,

I have a subcontractor to do that -

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I am not talking about your subcontractor ↑

4858

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I dont look after these matters.

Do you mean to say that you never look after my matters at all in the way of your drains ?

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Six or seven thousand floors for linewashing.

But you said just now you did not do anything with 4860

limewashing, so I passed over that .?

Four hundred or five hundred houses are plans, enaurating, how can I see them.

Have any of your subcontractors ever told you how m. they had paid the Inspectors not you, you know ?

4661

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NO.

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Too Sik, you understand English, so I am to spei

to you in English

Mr Ball will interpret it to you

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a minute. We are sitting here as a Commission, with 1 nh

pow.rs to send anyone to jail who does not speak the truth, and if they speak the truth, to give them a cortificate, by which no harm can come to them at all. We know that you are a man who deals very much with the Government in the Government contracts, and if it comes out that you dont tell the truth, you will get into serious trouble. All we ask is for you, for the benefit of the Government, to tell the truth. I may say I do not believe that you never heard that your subcontractors have paid money to Inspectors. Now, I would just repeat the question again ?

I dont know how much money they give them. Knowing that they are troublesome, I sublat the contracts. Supposing

I had limewashed the floor of a house, they dont come and ask me for money. I ask them to "Please go and lock at the lime washing". They tell me to wait, and after I

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