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Q. I mean such a thing as this: "Mr. PRICE is reported to be a determined opponent of the jobbery that is said to prevail so extensively amongst the subordinate members" Some one might say: There is no doubt a good deal in that?
A. I have always heard it the other way, that people were surprised it was possible.
Q.-So that you really could not mention the name of any person who could be
· `called to account for such a thing?
A.-No.
Q-Be called upon to justify it?
A.-No.
Mr. MCCALLUM is called,-
Q.—Hon. A. LISTER.-You are Sanitary Inspector I believe?
A. Yes.
Q. How long have you been in the Public Works Department?
A.-Since April last.
Q.-Are you brought at all intimately into connection with the working of the department?
A.-No.
Q.-I suppose you know nothing about contracts, except for the scavenging and so forth, nothing about bills, or what is paid, or estimates, do you?
A-Nothing whatever outside the Sanitary department.
Q.-Then, I think our inquiry so far as you are concerned, will narrow itself to this: Being in the department for nine months, an interested person, and thrown into connection with the people in the department, you must have heard a good deal about the reports going about, and the newspaper articles that have appeared?
A. Yes, I have heard what any one would ordinarily hear running about the town.
Q.-Yes, exactly. Well, now, suppose you were asked, quite apart from this commission, suppose you were in England and were asked your opinion as to the merits of this matter, what would you say?
A.-I don't know that I clearly understand what matter you mean.
Q: I mean the allegations made that persons in the Survey Department are open to bribes and take bribes. As the Hongkong Telegraph puts it, the jobbery which is said to prevail so extensively.
A.-Well, I would say the jobbery would either have to be proved or disproved.
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