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Q.-Well, go on.
A.-I said I had not collected inuch rent on this property, and if the places had to be reconcreted, there would probably be more than half a year's rent gone on it.
Mr. Fung Wa Chan.--"Nearly a half year?
A. Yes, nearly a half year.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-And what did the Sanitary Board say in answer to your application?
A.-They did not answer me at first,- -no answer I got.
Q. Did you do anything to those floors, then?
A.-I did, I reconcreted.
The Chairman.--Did you entirely reconcrete, or only repair them ?
A.-Those which were said to be not right, I reconcreted completely.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.--Have you been troubled again?
Mr. Shelton Hooper. the Sanitary Board at all?
But in answer to that, did you ever hear anything more from Did they inspect those houses when they were reconcreted ?
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-After it was completed, after the work was done?
A. I dont know.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Ther you have never received any communication from the Sanitary Board, but that one in which they called upon you to reconcrete, and you asked them to come and inspect it with you? They did not inspect it with you, and they have never replied to that communication up to to-day?
A.-I did not write. I asked them to go with me and see it. I wrote and said we will do what you like.
A.-He said he wrote and asked them to go with him and inspect them.
Mr. Fang Wa Chun.-No. he did not ask them to go with him.
He said "I obey your order to concrete. Please lo not pass them unless you are perfectly satisfied with the
work." That is what he said.
The Chairman.-Yes, he was not quite clear.
A. -I have received no answer.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Have you ever had any trouble again, on account of those houses?
A.-No, I reconcreted them.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Is that all about reconcreting ?
A.--There is also shops which I have rented from others, and they have also to be reconcreted. This is in the beginning of this year-I am speaking about now. They came
to examine.
Q. In which locality are those shops ?
A. There is one at Yauriati.
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