186
649
650
1
3
4
5
6
7
660
1
3
Q-- Have
you ever had Public Works Department?
(54)
your measurements checked since you have been in the
A-Not that I am aware of.
Q-Never, not once?
A-No.
Q-How many jobs have you got on now? What did you do to-day?
A-I have been in the office writing, and I have also been to Kennedy town. Q-What buildings have you inspected?
A-Kennedy Town Cattle Depôt and also the Inspector's quarters.
Q-How long were you there?
A-I might have been there three-quarters of an hour, or an hour.
Q-What did you do whilst you were there?
A-I inspected the work.
Q-What other buildings did you visit?
A-None.
Q-Yesterday?
A-Yesterday I went to Government Civil Hospital and inspected the work that had been done while I was away.
Q-What work is being done there?
A-Very little. But I went to see the work that was done during the past two
or three months.
-What other work is then there ?
A-Colour-washing and general repairs. There are always some little repairs. At the present moment there is a lot of work at the Central Police Station.
Q-Give us the details.
A-Well, I shall have to make you out a list, I expect, Sir.
Q-I only want to know roughly what your daily inspection is.
A-First of all, there is a little work at Government House-Canton summer blinds, and speaking tubes; then we go from there to the Central Police Station. I have been taking up some floors where men are supposed to have died of the plague, concreting and putting down new floors there, and also altering the verandahs. Then at the Western Market I have been putting up sunshades and also tarring and white- washing the basements there. From there we go to the Civil Hospital; there we have been doing the Principal Civil Medical Officer's quarters and putting in frames in the verandahs.
Q-Then how long did you spend at Government House?
A-I have not been there to-day; I can't visit all the places in one day.
Q-Do you go to all these places every day?
A-I can't go to these places every day.
Q-How often do you go?
A-Perhaps I go twice a week to the Government Civil Hospital, perhaps only once, and perhaps I go to the Police Station one place to-day and one place to-morrow, it all depends on what I have got to do, I have got so much writing.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.