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THIRTEENTH MEETING.
26th January, 1884.
Present: The Honourable E. L. O'MALLEY, Attorney General, (Chairman).
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A. LISTER, Treasurer.
F. B. JOHNSON.
WONG TSO-LEONG is examined,--
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.--You are a Contractor, are you not?
A. Yes.
Q.-You have been so for a long time, I think?
A.-I have been in Hongkong about 30 years.
Q.-I am told the Contractors here had some idea a little time ago about present- petition to the Government-all of them. What were they going to petition
about?
A.—I did not take part in it, I know nothing about it.
Q.-Are you not a sort of father to the Contractors here? You are the oldest of them all, are you not?
A.-I am the oldest.
Q.-Of course you must know that during the number of years you have been at work here sometimes foremen in the Public Works Department have received cumshaws to make things pleasant and so forth.
A.—I have never done such a thing.
Q.-But you know all about it?
A.-I don't know, because I do not see it with my own eyes.
Q. Have the Contractors all made up their minds to say the same thing?
A.-No; I mind my own business.
Q.-Why were they so unwilling to come?
A.--I have my own business to attend to.
Q.-Well, you have been here thirty years, and you do not know anything at all about any giving of presents or bribes or anything of the sort?
A. I myself have never done such a thing. If others have done it how do I
know?
Q.-Not under Mr. CLEVERLY, Mr. WILSON, Mr. MOORSOм, nor under any Sur- veyor General whatever have you ever heard of anything of that sort?
A. They never asked me to give them any cumshaws, nor did I give them any.
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