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The Chairman. You have had a good deal of experience, and so, without looking at this work yourself, the conclusion you naturally come to is that you have been obliged to use two men whose names have been recommended to you, and you find that they are unuecessarily expensive. Is that what you mean?
A.-Well, these were not really contractors. Sam Iu was a sweeper in the Sanitary
Board.
Q.-So you think that Sam Iu and the other men are not a bit better qualified, if as well qualified, to do the work properly, as the man you originally employed ?
A. They cannot do it as well.
Q. And they charge you very much more for doing the work than your own man can dc it for ?
A. Yes, it must be more.
Q. And your experience as agent or property owner is that you think on the whole you are paying too much money for the work done?
A. Yes, I pay more than I ought to.
Q.-And you think you pay more than you ought to, because you are more or less driven or compelled to use men whose names are recommended to you by the Sanitary Inspector?
A. Yes.
Q-And secondly that you are being practically squeezed by being forced to work with certain men, whether you like or not?
A. Yes.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Have you ever been asked has any Inspector ever suggested to you about offering him a bribe?
A.—No, they dont, they say that I watch them.
Q-Are you not the gentleman who prosecuted Inspector Crisp for bribery?
A. Yes.
Q. Well, ever since then you mean to say that they have been afraid to suggest any bribes direct?
A. Yes, and they use this plar.
Q. And they use this plan through the contractors ?
A. Yes.
399.-Q.-Now, have not your contractors told you that the work must be expensive on account of what they have to pay those Inspectors-the contractors you now employ ?
*A. Yes, they have said so.
Q.-Now, which of the contractors said so?
A. Both have said so, Tsang Ying and Sam Iu.
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