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Q.-Then you are a perfectly independent man; you can speak your mind freely?
A.-I was not badly treated before.
Q.-We are sitting here to inquire into certain charges made against the Overseers
of the Public Works Department. People say they receive bribes. Do you know any-. thing about it?
A.--I have not been up in this office for the last two or three years.
Q. When you were here did you know anything about their taking bribes?
A. They did not take them from myself.
Q.-You never heard of an Overseer taking bribes ?
A.—No, I did not hear of it, and I don't interfere with other people's business.
Q.-The CHAIRMAN.-You have a contract for the Quarry Bay works?
A.-I have stopped work for sometime because I could not get paid, and I am taking legal proceedings.
Q.--Did you ever have to stop work because you could not get paid when you were doing work for the Government?
A.-No.
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.-Had you any difficulty in getting payment?
A.-I did not have much difficulty. Sometimes there was delay.
Q.-The CHAIRMAN.-Have you ever been squeezed when you were working for the Government ?
A.-Never.
Q.-Do
you ever have to pay squeezes now,
in private work?
A.-No; I do the work according to the contract and no one dare ask me for any
cumshaw.
Q.--Do you know Mr. FRASER-SMITH?
A.-I do not.
LUI YAU is examined,-
Q. Hon. A. LISTER. You are a Government Contractor?
A. Yes.
Q.-How long have you been so?
A.-My father was a Contractor.
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