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Fu Street and Queens Road West. The owner of these

houses received a notice from the Sanitary Board that

the work was not properly done, the same notice was

passed on to me and I took it to the Branch Office to

ascertain what was required to be done to put the work

right. I was told by a clerk in the office to go and

see Inspector Ward in his house. This was about 9.30

o'clock of the morning. About tiffin time the same day

I took the notice to Inspector Ward's house to see him.

He was having his tiffin then. He told me in a few

words of Chinese that my work was not properly done but

that I had better come again after & o'clock of the same afternoon. I called again in the afternoon at the inspector's house and he told me if I was aware of the rule of paying 50 cents a house to the inspector for the work. I told him the whole job only cost $50 and if he wanted 50 cents a house he had better get mý páy direct from my master. The inspector then turned me out of the house, saying a few words in Chinese and a few

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words in English. I had the work done over again, which cpst me over $10, and the work was finally passed.

Hongkong 16th November 1906.

Declared before me. Signed. Lau Chu Pak.

Read over and interpreted. Signed. J. Dyer Bail.

28.11.06.

Read over and signed before the Commission on 28.11.06.

Signed. E. A. Hewett, Chairman.

8igned. Tsang Tim Kee.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

GO. 537

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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH – NOT TO BE

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