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Tsang Tim of No 9 Third Street, 1st floor, states:- I am a subcontractor for limewashing. I generally work for The Kan Kee. I also do a little limewashing work

for the "Sam Wo" woodyard at Wanchai. At the end of the

4th Chinese moon this year, I limewashed 210 ficors for

The Kam Kee at West Point near Sailors Hone. The work

was given to Tse Kam Keo by Mr Chan Chan Xam, and I got

it from Tse Kam Kee at 90 cents per floor. When the

work was done, notice was sent to the Sanitary Board

to have it passed. These floors are in No 9 Health

District, under the charge of Inspector Kelly. His

interpreter named Lo who used to live in the same street

with me, came to my house in one afternoon at about 4

o'clock, when he asked me if the limewashing was done

by me. When I said yes, he told me that Inspector Kelly

wanted to see me at the office in the following

afternoon. I went the next day to the Branch Office at

the appointed time, but I did not see him. Next morning

at about 10 o'clock the interpreter met me in the

street and asked me why I did not go to see the

Inspector. I told him that I went to the Branch Office

and waited for the inspector, but he did not turn up.

The interpreter said it was not the Branch Office that

the sector wanted me to go to, but that the office

in the inspector's own house. I went to the inspector's

house No 28 Elgin Street, 2nd floor, at about 4 of the

same afternoon. I waited there for about half an hour,

when the inspector with his interpreter returned. The

inspector said that my limewashing work was not.

properly done, the kitchens of those floors being too

dark. He also asked me if I was aware of the usual

custom of paying 20 cents a floor to the inspector for

such work. I said I could not afford to pay, as I only