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Because it is not aons properly.

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Is it not rather because the sub contractors dont pay

them money, and therefore they make trouble with them,

make them do it three or four times over 1

That is just it.

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The Inspectors have not been bribed, and therefore they

wont pass the work,

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is that what you mean?

A.

Yes.

Mr Shelton Hooper: Now indirectly have you anything to do with the West 19509

Point property, which is leased to Chan Chan Nam ?

A.

Yes,

I know about it.

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Do you know anything about the limewashing of that

property?

A.

No, I do not.

The Chairman:-

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Now, Mr Ho, you spoke just now about the Inspectors `19511

heing bribed. Whoever told you that the Inspectors were

bribed,

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did your contractors tell you this ?

There was no need of aaying anything about it. We ought

to know 11, ourselves, because I gave the houses to

someone to be whitewashed for $1 a ficor, and now I

give $2.50.

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Q.

That does not necessarily follow that you are justified

A.

Mr Pung Wa Chun:-

in saying that the Inspectors used to be bribed. Have

you anything more definite than that. Did the

contractors tell you that they have to pay tribes, or

have had to pay bribes at one time ?

It is very difficult to find proof for these people. If

these people give money to the Inspectors, they dont

dare to say it themselves, because they themselves will

get into trouble.

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Then how do you come to the conclusion that the

contractors must have bribed the Inspectors ?

Well, you ought to know it yourself. Because the

contractors said "we will guarantee you to whitewah

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