TNAG-1642-FCO40-2289-Public-finance-in-Hong-Kong-Supplementary-Appropriation-(198-1987 — Page 338

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MR CHUNG: But not on your behalf?

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MR MOTTRAM: I don't believe so, no, he was working for

the Government under our supervision, for the Architectural Office,

I think.

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MR CHUNG:

Was it a condition in the contract that

once there was a Clerk of Works on the site, then you don't have

MR MOTTRAM:

Oh no.

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to have your own personnel there?

Not at all, no. We would not normally have

supplied constant site supervision anyway. That is precisely what the Clerk of Works is there for, to look after day to day matters, or

hourly matters.

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MR CHUNG:

You nromally don't supply that, was this a particular construction that you had to exercise more care?

MR MOTTRAM: We do on every site, on every site. In fact in this particular job, as I recall, the supervision was far more

than we should have done.

MR CHUNG: In other words, you just took this case a normal

case and not a particular case ?

MR MOTTRAM: No, this was just a perfectly normal job.

MR BURDETT: The point my colleague.wants to make is that it is difficult for anybody other than a Clerk of Works to say whether or not the concreting was being done properly or not. It might even be difficult for the Clerk of Works to observe this, how the work is going on and this is certainly not meant to condemn the Clerk of Works at all, we are quite happy with the work he did.

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