and each of these units is the minimum area which can be allocated to any one concern. A verandah running round the building provides access to all units. The connecting link between the wings is used to house the communal latrines and wash rooms. The roofs of each of the wings provide drying space, a proportion of which is covered over, for the use of the factories housed in the building.
93. The rentals payable vary according to the floor, ranging from $75 a month for a ground floor unit to $45 a month for a unit on the top floor. Receipts from rents are calculated to cover all recurrent costs and to recover the original capital expenditure, including all engineering works, plus the value of the land at $25 a square foot, in twenty one years with interest at five per cent. The allocation of space is based on the floor area previously occupied by the concern for manufacturing purposes, computed as a multiple of the basic unit of 198 square feet. Thus a factory formerly occupying 1,200 square feet would be con- sidered eligible for six units, while one occupying 350 square feet would be allocated only two units. The maximum allocation to any one factory has been set at ten units, and since it is intended to provide accommoda- tion for small concerns only, any factory that occupied more than 2,000 square feet of space is not provided for.
94. After taking up accommodation in the factory the individual tenants have to provide their own partition walls and front walls facing on to the verandahs. The internal layout of each factory is subject to the approval of the Labour Department and the Fire Brigade, and each concern has to make its own arrangements for the installation of water, electric light, and power or gas supplies.
95. The design of the building and the fact that a large number of concerns are accommodated in close proximity to each other, has made it necessary to exclude certain trades. These trades fall into four main categories: those that require more storage space than could be provided, for example timber yards, and waste or scrap metal dealers; foundries and the like, for which adequate ventilation and flues cannot be provided; waste cotton refiners and bedding manufacturers, because of the obnoxious processes involved and because they generally require more space than could be made available; and all food factories, since it was considered that the facilities available were not sufficient to provide hygienic accommodation for the processing of food.
96. Though a higher rent is charged for ground floor units their case of access has made them very much more popular than those on
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