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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

CO. 537

"sir,

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I have the honour to bring the following facts "before your notice, feeling that from them, the "Commission may be able to glean some information.

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I joined the Sanitary Department on 1st November "1906 and began work in No 6 Health District, and "during my first 14 days in the District I very often "met the Inspector of No 3 District (J. R. Lee); this "Inspector who has lately been dismissed on one occas- "ion asked me why I had reported the scavenging "contractor, stating that I would be alright bye and "bye if I overlooked some things. He then informed me "that as I was a new Inspector he would interview both "the Conservancy and Scavenging Contractors with a view "of obtaining money for me. I told him I needed not his "advise and threatened to expose him if he again "mentioned the matter to me.

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* About 6 weeks after this conversation, and near "the volunteer Head Quarters, he produced a Chinese "envelope which contained Hongkong and Shanghai bank "notes, remarking at the same time to me that he had "just obtained them from a contractor who did not live "in his (Inspector Lee's) district, I remarked to him "that if I had the least suspicion he obtained it from "ny district that I would report him. About 7 or 3 days "preceding Xmas when engaged in house to house "inspection, I was called by a tenant in Circular "Battery and asked if certain illegalities were proper.

"Through my Interpreter I asked who had been advising "the tenant what to do, and that tenant and others in "the same terrace said an Inspector accompanied by a "young interpreter had been there, but had not asked "for any ownshaw. I few days after this I, socompan

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