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Take the Government Civil Hospital, there is the main hospital, the lower hospital, the maternity hospital, women's hospital, European and Chinese lunatic asylums, the Principal Civil Medical Officer's quarters, and staff quarters, and all the other buildings, and when you have got such buildings as that the overseer must be there to see the work and he has plenty to do.
By Mr. Shewan.-When you come to the office in the morning, do you report to anybody?
A-To Mr. TOOKER, every morning.
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A-Yes.
Q-It would not do for you to look at any buildings before coming to the office?
A-Not unless we make arrangements beforehand.
TOOKER what he has got for me to see.
Q-Supposing you pass a bill?
A-I make them out.
As a rule, I go and ask Mr.
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Q-And you make measurements?
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A-Yes, it might be my assistants sometimes.
-Does anybody check these?
A-The pay clerk, a Portuguese, checks it.
He is the clerk for the checking of
bills.
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Q-In what way does he check them?
A--He merely checks the figures.
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Q-He only checks the calculations ?
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A--That is all; he can't check my measurements.
Q-Supposing a thing were a hundred feet, and you put it in at two hundred feet, there is no possibility of anyone knowing?
A-No, unless they went and measured it.
Q-It all depends on you, or a man in your position, whether the measurements are passed for a hundred feet or a hundred and fifty feet?
A-Yes.
Q-So that there is an opening there for a good deal of squeezing?
A-Oh yes, if you like to carry it out, of course. I have to depend a good deal on my assistants.
By Mr. Thurburn. Mr. TOOKER goes out and checks the measurements sometimes?
I can say
A-He sometimes goes out with me.
that Mr. ToоKER has too much to do, and he can't do much of that sort of work. If there is anything particular, he
and make an estimate.
tells me to go
By Mr. Master.-Do you often get your measurements checked?
A---I check them myself sometimes.
Q-Do you often have your own measurements checked by some superior officer in your Department?
A-Not that I am aware of, Sir.
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