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-Will you give me the names of the Inspectors?
A.-Chief Inspector GERMAIN, Inspector CLERIHEW, Inspector GRIMBLE, Inspector RAY. Then there are the Chinese District Watchmen and the Watchman at the Peak.
Q.-I suppose the duty of these Inspectors is to report breaches of the sanitary regulations?
A. They report all breaches of sanitary regulations coming before them to me, and if I think it a case where a summons ought to be taken out a summons is taken out and the case comes before the Magistrate.
Q.-Then what security have you there is no corruption? because it appears to me there is as much opportunity in your department, if you will allow me to say so, as in the Public Works Department.
A-I quite recognise that fact, but we have this check: there are the Chinese watch- men; it is not at all likely Europeans would combine with the Inspectors in any way, and with regard to the Chinese Community we have now the Chinese watchmen from whom we would get information.
Q-Do you think you would get information from Chinese watchmen? I think it improbable. You mean that a Chinese watchman is a man in charge of Chinese houses?
A.-No; but he is intimately connected with the Chinese and knows all about them, and if anything of that kind were done he would mention it.
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Q.-What pay does he get?
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A.-The District Watchmen are paid partly from the Registrar General's Depart-
Q. And they make their reports to these Inspectors?
A.-No, direct to me.
Q.-And who supervises them?
A.-They are under the orders of the Inspectors.
Q.-And you have no reason to believe that any of
A.-No.
your Officers receive bribes?
Q.-You have never heard a suspicion expressed against your department?
A.-Not against the present Officers.
Q.-Then these conversations you have heard about the Survey Department were not directed against your own branch?
A.-Against the present Officers I have never heard anything. One or two who have gone away, I certainly have heard of.
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