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Q.-Were the subsequent additions built by the same man?
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A. Yes, if you are strict with a man you cannot change. Instead of the house being a cumshaw to me I have paid the Contractor $2,000 more than I ought to have
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sites?
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.-I find the house has cost you $10,000 including the two
A.—Yes, and I have supplied locks and furniture, and all that sort of thing.
Q.-And you have a little more to pay yet?
A.-Yes; how much I cannot tell till it is all squared up. During the last two months I have had two bricklayers working constantly, but they have gone away for China New Year now.
Q.-It is, of course, as well to look into these things to the very bottom. Will you have any difficulty in getting for us the cheque by which you paid this man? He says he was paid by cheque,
A. Certainly. $1,650 I paid in cash; the other amounts have all been paid by cheque.
Q.--We find this man did obtain a considerable amount of work at Tai-tam. Have you any share in the apportioning of that work at Tai-tam?
A.-I had nothing whatever to do with it. The only thing I have had to do with it was getting in the tenders for the quarters in which the Overseers were to lodge. The plans I did not make; the specifications I did not make. The tenders came in and the work was carried out by the Surveyor General and myself.
Q. Had you anything to do with the selection of the tender?
A.—I was on the Committee, and this was the lowest tender.
Q. He says he has got about $18,000 worth of work at Tai-tam.
A.-I don't know at all. I have not the slightest idea. I have nothing whatever to do with Tai-tam.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-CHAN AKING was the Contractor for the $1,650 as well as the house?
A. Yes.
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.-I have put down here $1,050 for levelling the first site.
A. That was ATAN.
Q.--Then the $1,650 was with this man AKING?
A. Yes.
Q.-And all the rest was AKING?
A. Yes, if you once commence with a man you cannot get rid of him. -
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