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THE RENT ORDINANCE.
[To the Editor of the China Mall.]
SirMy case is similar to that of the Broadwood Road houses, and is “another garing instance of the short age of housing accommodation being most unreasonably exploited by averición landlords.
The house I have resided in for some eleven years was owned by a Lopean Company until recently when the premises were purchased by a Chinese speculator and I (along with beighbours) was given notice to quit but told if I wished to stay in the premises I must apply to the
new owner.
Stuce coming into the house my monthly rent rose from $45 to $67.80 on the 31st December 1920.
Seding Attie "ikelihood of getting ofer suitable premises, I was forced te-approach the Chinese landlord who (in the attitude of take it or leave it) insisted, notwithstanding all remons strance, upon my at once paying $85; monthly, and, not satisfied with that extortion, practically forced me to sign a lease for a year giving him the right to kick me out at any time be found a purchaser of the premises on 3 months' notice. It may be remarked that houses similar in size,
granted, it is too much to expect that the Landlord will forego bis squeeze." The Ordinance now put forward by the Governor is my only hope.
I have heard of a number of similar cases to mine.
THE CHINA MAIL.
to spend hundreds of thousands of {dollars each year in anderessier to | combat ? - "
SUPERSTITIONS.
YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND.
date making it an appropriate ons,
Ther-resincitytou of the god bM
fecundating power made his festival a fmtlag this for” projects” concern ing marriage. -And- as Isia saw
You bave dealt forcibly with the weaknesses, and föccsclusiveness of the Land Investment Co.'s letter, bot why have they taken property h the
In New England they may that if again ber husband, Duits, on festival of his Stati poorer district of Winchal by way of young woman looks into a mused to fe as Ashtoreth looked again illustration of farming? Aly if the well on the frat of May she will see poo-Tsamu ber Jusband, i at the old farmer was satisfied with $27 for in the water below the face of her festival of his resuscitation, so the 2 floors of the Bowrington Road future husband. Down in Georgia manjarable women of to-day wee corner house, surely that rent or something less was the true value of any weil will do, but the girl must Day in the waters of
In her husband (that is to be) on May the 1st and 2nd-faces combined of look into it, at exactly high noon of water because in the cults of Tammis the adjoining houses, unless it can be May. I through a piece of smoked add Ostra frater was the visible sign proved the old, farmer had aheriar. glass. In other sections it is recom- of the fecundating god, and in a well motives in charging $27 only. If he mended to hold # looking glass over because in the Egypt of Osiris and in had not, he has been profiteering in the mouth of the well and Beek those parts of Asia Minor where collecting $48 and $49 for 2 floors in for the reflection of a face in the the cult of Tammur originated tha each of the bdintolag houses instead mirror.
These are supimportant virifying waters were seen sparsely
of $27 which would be the proper variations of the same superstition, or not at all, in the form of rain, but reat for 2 floors. That's how it which superstition dates back to the sweding stress and fitting wells.
worship of Tamuning on the Babylonian
strikes me.
The Company say "there is a plain and to the cites of those who constant loss owing to absconding “Mourned" (Niria," "dead" by the!
tenants: Short of distraining for waters of the Nile; cults which, Hepa for the bald is belt out by rent each month, it has been found spreading over Europe, became a machins invented by Dr. Facu most difficult and In many cases | mingled with and modified by indi Thompson, New York physician, impossible to collect the rents." As genots mythologies of kindred signi- which; it is claimed, can sew) his during practically the last 10 years ficance. It was the delfication of the on human händs. --A very fine needia there has scarcely been an empty principles of saburu-s symbolizing worked by electricity ex "a" 100 house or fat in Hongkong and rent of the yearly death and resuscitation bakica no hoor! ~"The vachine is to be is collected invariably in advance of vegetation as the death and resur- inhibited at the annual dinner of the from Chinese, I absolutely fail to see rection of a god, Nature worship. New York Bad- Heild Chib," and after that the Company is justified in
dinner the biventor will sew one hair Libelling the Chinese as it has done
each to the heads of 8 members. to bolster up its case. The letter,
Prizes will be awarded for the instead of Justifying the Company's
barest bead." actions or position, does nothing to wash away the taft of scandal it has become associated with.
The Daily Press on Saturday said that where leases, expired du | December 31, 1920'ir would be unfair to landlords if they could only charge the same rent payable on that date and not be entitled to Increased rent In reply I would · way.
(1). 95% of the houses may be i said to be occupied by Chinese and there are practically no leases of houses occupied by Chinese except the " farming " leases. If a farming lease expired on the 31st-December 1920, the landlord would be entitled to collect the rent paid by the tenant to the farmer on that date, which rent, as is well known, would be at
least 50% and in some cases" 75: per cent higher than the amount of rent the farmer had been paying the land- lord under his lease. The landlord would consequently receive a Can- siderably increased rent and be inӈ most favourable position finascially and otherwise.
(2) Regarding the remaining 5 per The scandalous treatment I receiv-cent of houses, these are European ed at the hands of the new landlord and the only ones likely to have is further emphasized by the fact leases not being farming leases, so to that though one of the terms on cases where there were leases éxpiring which I signed the lease was that he on December 31, 1920, if the rent | should execute various repairs which under there was fixed 3,5 or 10 years the premises urgently required, after ago, could not the standard rent in signing the lease he refused to do all such cases be fixed by adding to the these in fact would doalmost nothing old rent, say, for illustration only, as until certain portions of the premises the Government Assessor will be actually fell down, and even then better able to fix the percentage of had, for my own safety, to incur some increase) 10, 15, and 30 per cent expense myself in order to ensure respectively. I am sure there will be the repairs were suitably and properly very few cases requiring "the fixing effected or to carry out repairs he of standard rent like this. There defaulted in effecting.
will certainly be no unfairness, to landlords,
I
every possible advantage to crush unfortunate tenants most..unmerci fully. Who can honestly say there is no necessity for the Ordinance?
I am assured by tenant who is unfortunate enough to live in a flat Let us all insist that this very fair farmed out by the Land Investment and admirably drawn ordinance, Co.that he has information that theold which meets the requirements, be farmer of his premises paid the Land | passed despite the unjustifiable wails Investment Co. a mere $10 monthly of the vested interests and bloated for bis fat and this farmer started landlords, who have for so long taken off in 1914 by charging him $14 per Chinese month (gaining a month 2 year), and from time to time ina cas ed the rent thereof until it was, at the expiration of his lease. $18, the In conclusion I would suggest that old farmer making $8 on this one fat the Attorney General insert a clause per month. Two years ago a farmer in the ordinance making a landlord leased the premises. It is not known liable to a severe penalty in cases what he paid the Land Investment where he demands a rent bigher than Co: (probably not more than $18 for the standard rent. Many Chinese the fat) but my friend's rent was at aware or unaware of the law will, I
design and accommodation and once put to $20 and from time to fear, be unduly coerced into paying practically in the same street are at time this has been increased in exorbitant rents in excess of the this moment being rented at $60 per | warrentably until a couple of months standard rent unless there is a month only.
At the time he most unreasonably bringing his rent to $29. It will be
ago he was stuck for $4 more, penalty attached.
I enclose, for your information, fixed this rent of $85 (which is quite seen this farmer makes about $11 rent receipts showing the 25% in- out at all proportion to the real value on each flat, i.e. $11 on about $18crease in my rent, as above outlined, of the premises and their accommoda per month, and as be has farmed also my lease which please retura tion) the suggested increase of rates out whole blocks of buildings It is after perusal. was in the air, but it will be seen well known his profits are enormous. that though the proposed increase in rates with only 7 per cent, the increase
Does not the extortion in my own
Yours, etc.,
"A FATHER OF SIT."
and my friend's cases convince one Hongkong, July 4, 1921 of Yeketemanded from me represents of the extreme urgency and necessity 25 per cent. it is clear the landlord for the Gevernment's new Ordinance *provided for the proposed increase in and upset completely the hastily con-
rates in fixing my rent as he understructed contentions contained in the CAN YOU AFFORD THE RISK? took to pay all rates. The increase Land Investment Company's letter in rates has been abolished, but it is regarding the system of farming? Wat you ever sized with a gye Bene to me while grasping land Farming may be alright for the Land without a bottle of Chamberlain' Unlic YY-attack of cramp colic or diarrhes lords exist. My rent, like that of Investment Company and others, bat and Diarrhus Remedy in the house? many others, to which an increase how about the pour tenants? Does Don't take such risks. A dise or two will cure you beto e a doctor "opald
increase in rates was added has not
far greater than the proposed actual it not account for six or a dozen possibly be called, and it never fails families huddling together on one even in the most severe sud dangerous in any way been reduced and there fat, and indirectly to all the diseases cases For sale by all Chemists and is no likelihood of a reduction being which the Government is called upon Storekeepers.
TIN NE CONNA GIT CUT TO EXCITY'S FISH CINNER TONIGHT":
THERES NO USE ASKIN”
MAGGIE!
In England, whenes we inherit our May Day observances, the festival of the revival of the god was fixed for May 1, the state of vegetation at that
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