CO537-36 — Page 428

300

ما

M. Sip

1589.

B. Pearse and

603

13438

13538 Q.

It is a Meeting of Plague Ins, actors ↑

It is a Mecting called by them.

A.

·39

.•

By whom t

A.

40

A.

&

A.

The Inspectors.

And anybody else ↑

The President and Secretary.

Then who are the arrangements made with ↑

13539

13540

I dont understand your question. Matters of interest

13541

are discussed, and certain plans of action are decided

on. I oant repeat to you those things up here. I can

only refer you to the Minute Book. For exampl, at the

close of a Plague Epidemic, it is quite a natural thing

to discuss what we are to do now to keep our staff

going on.

Mr Lau Chu Pak:-

So every year, after a plague season, you send the

Inspectors out to examine every house ?

1354-2-

43

A.

No, not necessarily. I made a special point last year,

at the end of the Plague season, to have a large number

of floors in the colony examined, with a view to

seeing whether they were good or bad. If they were

good, they were reinstated at the expense of the

Government

If they were bad, then they had to be

made right by the owner.

Have you made any distinction as between floors made 13.543

two or three years ago 1

I have made no distinction at all.

A.

44 Q.

Not even if the concrete was laid last year?

13544

A.

I have no intention of making any distinction whatever

between one house and another. At the end of last

year's plague season, what I wanted to see was whether

those houses were reasonably ratproof.

135

A.

Dont you think that is a hardship on the householder ↑

Almost everything in the Ordinance is a hardship.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

C.O. 537

36

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

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE