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FATAL BALCONY creting of the floor, would you

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dony it?—I would say it was not true..

"I 1 quality, by saying the greater part of the time, will you.

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A sugestion that Mr. Kwok Wal-

You made it your special bual-Authorised Capitu .... sum, owner of the building,, hadness in fact to be there at the Subscribed and Pald-ep u................. 1204,100 | been taking a particular and nc concreting7--No, not always. tive Interest in the construction Sometimes I had to go

to Can- work, even in the concreting of ton, therefore I could not have 17.121. Leadenhall Street, London, Rd. & merre Liability of Proprietors. 3,000,000 the floors, was made by Mr. F. C. been there. Jenkin, K.C., in the course of I put it to you that you had cross-examination of the witness four overscore? Only two. I at the resumed enquiry yesterday have only ono foki, callod Kwok into the fatal balcony collapse Loy, and whenever he is alok, I at 15, Yuk Sau Street.

send a foki of my own firm to take his place.

Mr. Schofield is sitting ns Coroner, and the special jury empanelled comprises Messrs.. R. A. Rodgers (foreman), Colbourne Littic, and Li Koon-chun.

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Wo have heard from the loarn-| ed Coroner that you informed the transected. Loans and overdrafie, granted on CALCUTTA Police you had four overseers. Ied security. Current and Fixed Deposit CANTON suppose it is a mere coincidence BAVINGS BANK ACCOUNT-Interest EU that our instructions here are also allowed x1 rata which may be obtalaad on

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that you had four overseers 7--1pplication.

TRAVELLERS' LÄSTTERS OF may have sold three or four.

Did you sign your statement to the Police ?—Yes.

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Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C. (instruct- ed by Mr. F. E. Nash, of Messrs. Woo and Nash, appeared for the contractors, Mesara, Wang, Tak and Co., Mr. H. J, Armstrong of Messrs. Deacons, for the architect, I put it to you, Mr. Kwok, that in leers. and at Parts of GL HARBIN Mr. A. J. Lane, and Mr. M. K. Lo, of Messrs. Lo and Lo, for the owner of the house."

Mr. Kwok Wai-aam was again called to give evidence.

you know a great deal more about buildings than you profess to know, and that you practically took charge of the construction of this building?-No, I don't

Mr. Jenkin: The avorsers you agree. selected without any reference at |

I put it to you that you inter- all to the architects? That la so. fored and gave orders and direc- Who put you up to that?-Ontions on almost every conceivable

occasion-If I found

my own.

Without any previous knowledge you say, of buildings?-Yos.

You also had coples of the speel- fications translated into Chinese? --Yea.

Who put you up to that?-On my own volition.

out any-

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thing wrong I told my workmen No. 10 Des Voeux Road, Central.

to have it put right.

And that in particular, when Authorised Capital the concrete was being laid, you Paid-up Capital were present and directed opora- Reserve and Undivided Prodis .. tions? What power had I to give those directions?

Beattie

You were also at great pains to Mr. Jenkin proceeded to take select your own

contractors-witness over the construction of semaran

the concrete floors.

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In reply to a question witness Bingapore And all those things which I

Bourabaya have mentioned were done with-denied that the pressing or ram-

Talboku arming up of the concrete was done Tantsio out consultation with your chitects 7-That is so.

by his overseers. And the only instructions you gave your overseers were by you?

Yes.

You were particularly interested In the concrete, were you not?-- Not particularly.

Mr. Jenkin: It was dona by Vancouver your foremen with fir poles which Yokohama were left lying about the pre- | Kowloom misce?I don't say that.

And that they did that because of your apprehension or fear of

In what else other than the con-casioned by the collapse in the

other building?—No. crete were you interested?-In- specting wood work and bricki work.

The collapse of the adjacent balcony to which you referred yes terday was before your balcony was completed?--I cannot remem- her. It was so long ago.

I put it to you that the collapse did in fact occur before your bal- cony was completed ?--I cannot re- member.

And that resulted in a very special interest on your part in your own balcony7-Not so parti- cularly interested. I merely ask ed Mr. Lane to make the balcony Bounder, in order to prevent a similar occurrence.

Question of. Presence. Will the concreting of any single floor of any of your houses take place in one day?-I don't know, as I have no knowledge of buildings. The workmen some- times carry out work during the night as well.

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I am including night work as well. I put it to you, on the oc casion of concreting that you made it your business to be pre-- gent? That is not so. I had other work to look after, and could only make an occasional inspec- tion of the buildings.

If all your witnesses say you wore there during the whole con-

Point of Question. You see the drift, I take it, of You see the point! my question, of my question, don't you? If you don't I shall explain it to you. The point of the question is this, to be quite fair to you. If the ramming of that concrete pl carelessly done, the frame work of the bars and those stirrups would be put out of position 7- I never instructed my men to do the ramming.

I am suggesting that in this the overseers are largely responsible. | The drop of those bars from the right to the wrong position, that is from the top to the bottom would be a matter approximately of three inches only?—I have not gone into that,

You made numerous · payments out of your own pocket apart from the architect during the course of these works 7-Yes.

Did you keep a record of these payments?-Yes.

Witness replying to further questions, sald these payments were shown in the account books of his firm.

Counsel: And they will show

overseers? payments to your

Yes.

Mr. Lo "Astounded.” Mr. Jenkin having completed

(Continued on Page 13.).

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