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Q. Have you and your father been fairly treated by the Public Works Department?
A. Yes, both my father and myself have received fair treatment.
Q.-Have you any complaint to make at all?
A.-No.
Q.-Who makes out your bills for you?
A.-I ask some one to do it for me.
Q.-Who is the some one?
A.-Not the clerks in the office down below.
Q-What put that into your head? Why did you say that? Evidently some
one has been talking to you when you say "not the clerks down below."
What have
you
heard?
A.-No one told me to say that.
Q.-But I did not say anything to you about the clerks down below.
A. You asked me who made out the bills.
Q.-And you said not the clerks down below.
A.--You asked me who made out the bills for me.
Q.—I did not say anything about the clerks down below.
A.-No. I get some one to make the bills for me.
Q.--Who is the some one?
A.-LẠI CHING, a teacher of English.
Q.-Then I suppose some people had got the clerks down below to make their bills out?
A.-I don't know, I only do work for the Government to the extent of a few thousand dollars a year.
Q.-Do you ever have to pay anything to the Overseers?
A.-No.
Q.-The CHAIRMAN.--Why not?
A.--I am a business man and they never ask me to pay.
Q.-But is it not usual to pay?
A.-Never.
Q.-Have you ever been squeezed by any one?
A.-No, I have not myself, and I don't know of any one else who has.
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