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Q.-Have you anything to do with measuring work?
A.-Now I have, on small jobs.
Q.-You have to measure work and see the claim the Chinese foreman makes out
is correct ?
A. Yes. We make a rough estimate and submit it to the Surveyor General in the first instance, before the work is commenced, and then it is contracted for. Then
we have a plan and specification put into our hands and we see it is carried out.
Q.--And after it is done, do you measure it?
A. Yes. If there is anything extra we give it, if any deficiency we deduct it.
Q.--You see the work the Contractor claims for has been done?
A. Yes.
Q-Are you solely responsible?
A.-No.
Q. Who is responsible besides yourself?
A.-The Surveyor General.
Q.-But you say you measure it ?
A.-But if he felt disposed to measure it after me he could.
Q.-But in the usual course of business you measure the work after it is done and send in your statement to Mr. PRICE?
A. Yes, we give the length and breadth, and so on.
Q. And that is all that is done, no one supervises you ?
A.-Very often Mr. BOWDLER comes and measures afterwards.
Q. Do you compare estimate with the result?
A.-No. The man who tenders lowest gets the contract, and we see it carried out according to the specification made in the office.
Q.-Do you ever assist the Contractor in measuring the work after it is done?
A-No; I always measure after him.
Q. Do you measure it with him?
A.-Sometimes I have been measuring, and he has taken the dimensions I took ; other times he has measured long before.
Q.-Then, if you chose to be dishonest, there would be an opportunity for you to show more work was done than was the case?
A.-No, it is all surface work; you could not say that.
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