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ir Yung Wa Chun:-

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72.4.

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Were you asked to do this work, or did you only do it

858 on your own account?

I mentioned it to Dr Macfarlane. I saw the carpenters

were running about doing nothing, and it struck me,

seeing that I was in a Disinfecting Station, that I

might put two and two together and make things pay,

the same as you have to do at homein Glasgow or

Edinburgh. I bought wood for the Government and worked

the thing up,

and trained the men how to cut the wood.

We were really making it a training depot for the

Kowloon Docks. As I say, Mr Chairman, and gentlemen, I

am getting £20 a year less than men who have got no

qualifications whatever.

Then you did that work with the knowledge of Dr 23672

Macfarlane ?

I did.

A.

73 Q.

He knew all about it a

A.

He knew all about it.

74

And he approved of it ?

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

GO. 537

37

RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

OUT PERMISSION OF THE

COLONOTOGRAPHICALL

PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE

WITH-

75-4.

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The Chairwan : -

76

A.

He did approve of it, and I submit that some of my

work -

I have an estimate of some of the stuff nere,

and I can build a dust cart for $105, and I can put

it on the road and run it for 12 months and the

expanse is nil.

Have you any idea how much it costs the Government *75*

for the other carts built in Hongkong ?

I havnt any idea, Sir, but I have one idea, I did see

a pair of wheels for a cart that cost something like

$226. I pre arad an estimate and told the man how I

wanted them to be built, something like they are used

in Victoria. My cost was $40, and that was pooh poohed.

Fause they were not strong enough ?

Because I think they were too cheap, Mr Chairman. It

low

was the absurdity of the price, $40.