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Q.--He says you break the drains, if it is somebody else, but if they are made by Sam Iu, they are alright. Surely that must have happened more than once, or you could not have made such a very positive statement?
A. It was more than once-No. 2 Ormsby Villas at the same place. That is a surface drain. It was repaired, and someone trampled it to pieces, but when Sam Iu does the thing, it is not trampled to pieces.
Mr. Humphreys entered the Council Chamber at this stage.
Mr. Shelton Hooper. With regard to what you said about breaking the drains, you mean the breaking of the iron trap--the iron covering that goes into the brick trap at the entrance ?
A. No, I mean down below, where the earthenware is.
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395.-The Chairman.-You have had no prosecutions this year, but last year you were constantly prosecuted ?
A. Two or three times last year, but not once this year.
Q. Have you had many cases in which you have had drains relaid this year?
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A.-No.
Q.-Well, might it not be that you might not have been prosecuted because you have not had many drains relaid, and that those men have done the work better than the other contractor?
A. Well, I dont know as to that.
Q.-I mean to say you have made complaints against those contractors, but I am not satisfied in my own mind that it necessarily follows because the first man was complained of, that he might not have done the work badly, and the other men might have done the work well?
A. Well, at the best it is $4.
Q. And what do they charge you now?
A.--There is a made up bill of $20.
Q-So, do you mean to say now, that this year, you are paying practically five times as much as you had to pay last year for the work done by your own man ?
A.-Well, there is one case of five times as much. There may be others that are not as much.
Q. You have had a good deal of experience in house property, Mr. Chung, for a good many years?
A.-I am much acquainted with it.
Mr. Humphreys.-The others are all more ?
A. Yes, more.
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