3.8
2435..
Li Y. Clume 1
Ink S. Kor
19672
Q.
And is that the same over in Kowloon, as
it is over on 19613
this side ?
A.
It is only $1 here.
14 Q*
A.
$1 in Hongkong, and $1.10 in Kowloon ?
Yes.
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A.
The Chairman:-
76
A.
And does he employ the same contractor to do both 19615
sides
Er Shelton Hooper:-
Sometimes, sometimes not.
19616
Why should it be more expensive in Kowloon, than here? Well, it ought to be cheaper on that side, because the people consider it difficult to do it here. They have got. to do it over again, there.
19617
Do you mean to say that the Inspector on that side is more particular than the Inspector on this side ?
It is more difficult for him to be pleased with it.
Do you know who the Inspector is who passes the work 19618
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Reference:-
GO. 537
A.
Q.
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on the Kowloon side ?
A.
I dont know the Inspector.
The Chairman: -
Who has told you all this?
19619
19
A.
The limewashers, the builders, and my rent collators
have told me.
19620
18
Q.
Have they ever suggested at any time that it has been hinted to them, either on this side or on the other
A.
Q.
A.
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side, that the work would be passed more promptly if
they made a present to the Inspector, or his interpreta
or his foki ?
I have not been told that. They would not tell me.
So far as you yourself are concerned, you have no iqtai
knowledge of bribery or corruption, or any question
of that kind coming in to it?
No, I do not know. Well, I say this is not proper, and Why? Because the sometimes I suspect the Inspector. limewashers have told me something. They tell me some,
without going to see, it, have said that the limewashing is not proper, and some, without needing to see it,
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