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13.
A
1324.
Lo man kai
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Not laid down in the contract, but the Inspectors had orders from the Board that he can tell the contractor to get so many coolies a day, if he wants the streets
watered.
The coolies are paid so much a day per head ?
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Yos, a number of coolies is ordered from time to time.
Hr Lau Chu Puk:-
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A.
Hr helton чooper:-
Who by ?
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A.
At the Inspector's meeting.
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They are private meetings on Saturdays
A.
Yes.
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And who settles it? Do they take a vote. Supposing|||||
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they dont agree one says we want more, and the other
says we want less ?
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
.........................C.O. 537
A.
I think the President settles it.
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Q..
If it is done at the Inspectors' Meeting, on the advice
of the President, it is done at the Inspectors' Meeting
and not by the Board ?
A.
Not by the Board.
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The Chairman:-
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A.
Kr Humphreysi“
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You say that Sham Tu admitted paying Inspecto:s Fisher, Lyon, Woolley, Tamble, Conolly, L. E. Brett, McEwen, H. Ridley, Allen, and in fact all the senior and Plague Inspectors, who are in immediate contact with him.
Well now, (did he mention any other names of people he
paid money to ?
Not particularly, because I had no reason to suspect,
and I did not ask him individually.
Did you happen to know at that time that Inspector 11-164
Reidie was a rich man ?
A.
I heard no.
The Chairman:-
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He is rich, is he ?
A.
Yes.
Krumphreys:-
Who did you hear 11 from ?
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La
From the contractors.
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The contractors told you he was a rich man ?
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