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Mr Lau Chu Pak:-

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Mr Shelton Hooper:-

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Because it is a very important point shis, in

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connection with the technical evidence which has been

givan, and also my experience of floors. Is it admitted

that in most of the floors on the lower levels, they

had got damp at the bottom, but there may be 44 inchoa

of solid good concrete on the top, that is what I news

In that case, the floor should then not be condemnéă,

One might make a note of the condition of that floor,

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and two years afterwards, see how it is getting on. One

very often sees a ground surface, which is not absolutely

smooth. " maan the surface of a Chinese house, not

back yard. Strictly speaking, it should be mooth, But

one very often has to let a house pass because it is

scarcely bad enough. At the present time, even, I tell

Inspectoru that it is not worth while to serve a

notice now, but when it is worth while later on te

serve a notice, and see they make a good job of it. After all, dont you think the Plague Inspectors might|41st

have made mistakes, which a competent man might not

have made t

I dont think that, at any rate to a great extent, there

has been hardship inflicted through wilful mistakes being made by Inspectors. I think they do their best.

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Through comparative ignorance. They know something of

their work, but I will say that had we a properly

qualified engineer, for example, like Mr Perkins,

instead of Plague Inspectors, to examine concrete, one man to do it instead of half a dozen men, the work might have been doge with much less fricțion, and much

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