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have waited, they say they dont have time, come the next day. So I have had to give out the subcontract. The same with the concreting.

Now, Foo Si, dont you know that your subcontractor, having the same trou, that you had about going round, give these Inspectors someting to hurry them up, .80 that they will pass it today, ingsad of tomorrow ?

I dare not tell. I do not know how much coney they give

them.

Then you have heard ?

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I think they do.

Yr Fung Wa Chun:-

And you have heard too ?

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The Interpreter:-

Mr Shelton Hooper:•

No, I think they do. I just think they do. How is it then that they hinder them for several days.

He means that must be the reason of it.

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Hopper: And, Foo Sik, have you not heard this for years

trouble these Inspectors have given you contractors ?

I have heard it for many years.

And you have felt it too, have you not, Foo Bik ?

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I think 80.

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we will leave alone Have you not heard, Foo Sik, contractors for a bit - have you not heard your Chinese countrymen, your fellow tradesmen here, shopkeepers, ad what may be, complain very bitterly of the way in which the Sanitary Inspectors do their work, and wanting

squeezes ?

I have heard it.

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Too Sik, I am going to ask you now, very straight in English, can you not tell us the name of som- Inspectors who have caused you a great deal of troulle. Dont be afraid, Foo Bik, for by telling the truth here today will do you mere good in the Colony than all the bust mone? you have ever made ?

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