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392.-A. C. SMALL, sworn :—
The Chairman. Is it as far as you know a customary thing for contractors to go and offer money like that to Sanitary Inspectors to pass work quickly?
A. It is customary.
Q.-It is done frequently?
A. Yes.
Q.-Quite commonly, all the time?
A. Yes.
Q-All contractors do it, as a matter of fact?
A. Yes.
Q-Drainage or building contractors?
A. Yes.
299.-LAI CHING HING, declared and cautioned:-
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-Do you know the Kwong Fook shop, which hires out launches ?
A.I have a share in it.
Q-Are launches often hired by the shop to Sanitary Inspectors?
A-I have heard the fokis say so.
Q-Who goes to the shop to arrange for the launches?
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Go on, dont be afraid now.
A.-I will tell you about this matter. I just happened that day to go and sit down in the Kwong Fook, and I was speaking to the foki. He said that Sam lu had come to reckon up the accounts, and my foki had said to him "accounts of such a length of time I cannot trouble so much with you about. It cannot be done.”
Mr. Lau Chu Pak-What have the launches to do with Sam Iu ?
A.--Sam lu went and engaged them. I said what was it about? He said Sam Iu wanted me to reckon up the accounts about the launches, and it was such a long account he could not do it.
The Chairman.-Was Sam Iu present at the time you made this remark?
A: He was not there.
Q.--Well, what happened after that?
A.-Nothing more was said.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-Did your foki say that these launches were hired for the In- spectors ?
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