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The Chairman.- What are these forms ?
A.-Blank forms of tender.
Mr. Shelton Hooper. I suppose if fifty Contractors wanted forms they could have tliem ?
A. They come to the Colonial Secretary's Office for forms of tender and to my office for the conditions of contract.
The Chairman.—And when they come to your office who do they go to?
A. They would be given to Mr. Lo Man Kai.
17.-CHAN PUI, declared and cautioned :-
The Chairman. Have you a contract with the Government for some Government work?
A. Yes, the Slaughter-house at Yaumati and Hunghom and Shaukiwan.
Q-Have you got any partners?
A.-No, it is my own business-a small business.
Q-What does the work consist of?
A.-Slaughtering Pigs and Sheep and Cows.
Q. And do you keep the Slaughter-house clean ?
A. Yes, there is a European.
Q. And do you make anything out of the refuse of the Slaughter-bouse?
A.-I get the blood and hair and so forth.
Q.-You are allowed to take that by the Government ?
A. Yes.
Q. And you sell that I suppose?
A.—Yes.
Q. Who do you sell it to?
A.—The blood, is sold to boat people for dyeing their nets and to painters and the hair is sold up in the country for the agriculturists.
•Q.-Well, do you do any other business over at Kowloon besides these Slaughter-
houses?
A. Yes.
Q.-What is it?
A.-The latrines.
Q.-Have you a contract with the Government for looking after latrin- s?
A. No, private latrines.
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