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I mean, after you had passed the concrete, year's time say, the owners are called upon to do it over again. Have you had any cases like that?

No, not that way. The latter end of last year, I sent papers in to the Sanitary Roard office, as work satisfactorily dope. Three months afterwards, Mr Carter went, and opened the concrete, and in some cases, only a week after, and he not only condemned it, but insisted on having two inches of cement concrete laid on the top of what I had already passed, as satisfactor

I have two samples of that in my office, which I

guarantee is good, and yet it was not accepted by the

Surveyor.

What house was this?

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

CO. 532

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Mr Fung wa Chun:-

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One simple was from Pokfulum Road, and the other sample wan from High Street, I sent in the papers as work satisfactorily done, and yet within one week to a month afterwards, the floors were reinspected by Inspector Carter, and before he would pass it, he recommanded two inches of cement concrete to be laid on the top of

it.

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You mean to say that he is more strict than yourself? The law does not specify what makes good concrete, how many parts of which should he mixed to make good concrete. It only says it should be to the satisfaction

of the Board.

Have you got an interpreter ?

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No.

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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH

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You never had an interpreter before ?

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Oh yes, I have had an interpreter. But since I have been Plague Inspector, I have had no interpreter at all except the Plague foreman, who is not my interpreter

officially.

Whan did you begin to do plague work, how long ago When 11 first started in 1901 or 1902. 1902, I presume

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