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Q-How long do you write?
A-For the first eight, nine or ten days of the month I am at it in the office daily from nine till five oclock.
Q-Then you can't inspect at all?
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A- -Not at all.
Q- -Then the rest of the month, are you going in a ricksha from one place to an- other from day to day?
A-Yes, Sir.
Q--When you go to the Civil Hospital, does that take you a day ?
A-Most decidedly no.
Q-Could you not visit half-a-dozen of these places in a day?
A-If there was very little on you might visit half-a-dozen. You want to look into the work and see it is being carried out.
Q-What job is the coloured man on now?
A-He spends his time really between the Central Station and the Hospital, but as the Hospital work is finished now, he is up at the Central.
Q-And stops there?
A-He will stop there for two or three days. We are putting up a lot of iron-
work there for columns.
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J. COYLE sworn:-
By the Chairman.-What is your position in the Public Works Department? A-I am an Overseer in charge of buildings, in the position of Clerk of Works out- side of Victoria and in the New Territory.
Q-How long have you been in the Public Works Department?
A-Eleven years.
Q-And what was your calling before you joined the Public Works Department? A-I am a joiner and carpenter by trade.
Q-You were in the Royal Engineers ?
A-Yes, I was in the Royal Engineers for seven years.
Q-What was your rank there?
A-I was a Corporal.
Q-You are chief officer in connection with this work?
A-I am second, Mr. MUGFORD is first.
Q-But you are specially entrusted with the maintenance of buildings outside Victoria and in the New Territory?
A-Yes.
Q--How many buildings are there, roughly?
A--Eighty-nine under my charge, including latrines.
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