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[months and will not house more than 4,500 persons. The cost of tenement property of the three-. storey variety, built to house about 60 persons has been esti- mated for us, by a large foreign firm of property owners, at roughly $7,000 per house. An architect contends that it is pos- sible to build for $50,000 each special model blocks of three
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7, Garrick Street, London, W.C2 storeys, built one-room deep all round a central quadrangle which would be used for washhouses, latrines and play-space for child- ren, (each block with capacity for about 600 persons) provided the framework of construction was in ferro-concrete, with graye block fillings. On this basis, all the accommodation planted by. Government could be provided in permanent structures, at certain- ly no greater cost than is contemplated. Even were the es- timate falsified and final outlay to prove a trifle greater, the ad- bo ditional expenditure would ̧ more than justified. Government, on this point, we believe, rests on the argument that the camps should be ready by November and that permanent erections could not be completed in the time. The answer is a further challenge: for it is astonishing what can be accomplished, particularly in Hong Kong, if there is the will Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1938- and the energy..
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REFUGEE CAMP
COSTS
Another Blow for
Fathers
father. Fathers are an unfortun- ate set. No one praises them. Mothers, crowned with laurels, get buttered up all over. celebrated English dramatists
Two
-Because Government has made concessions to Kowloon's refugee camp objections, to the extent of adopting älternativé sites, keep-school children, by the simple Some ten thousand London
ing those originally set aside in process of taking an intelligence reserve, it does not mean, or test, have dealt another blow to should not mean, that all is now settled and only the preparation of the camps remains to be done. The more important question of the almost fantastic initial cost have recently published autobio- graphies full of praises on the of official benevolence persists in maternal side, but somewhat its challenge. One of the most critical of other branches of the curious features of the scheme as family. And now even the child- proposed is, we understand, that ren have joined in; all the more effectively, perhaps, from · not the actual furnishing of accom- knowing exactly what they were modation in the form of wooden doing. huts will not involve an outlay of
It seems that London's clever- est children are the sons and more than, roughly, $40 per head, daughters of university teachers. but the accessories, the odds and The children of professional peo- ends, the necessary amenities as ple come next, followed by those we have no doubt they will be who have been brought up in the atmosphere of big business. Right termed, call for a further ex-at the bottom are the children penditure of approximately $70 surrounded from birth by an at- per head. In the absence of mosphere of want and poverty. This educational inquiry, carried Agures of cost, detail by detail,out by, Prof. J. L. Gray and Miss attack must be in general terms, Moshinsky, leads to the conclu- but on the face of things, this sion that the scholastic ability of. startling financial disparity be children in the mass, though not tween the provision of plain ac necessarily -- individually, varies commodation and the satisfying according to the professional and of other incidental requirements social status of their parents as seems
to demand explanation. reflected in the opportunities that It should be stressed, perhaps, this status provides. that our objection to the expen- To this rule, however, there is diture of half a million dollars on one important exception.
The this project is not in ratio to children of ordinary seamen rank the sum involved, but is concern- higher than might have been ed wholly and solely with the expected. It is suggested that manner in which the money is this is because they see so little |being spent. No Government of their fathers, who are natural- statement on this issue has ally away from home a great deal layed misgivings. On the con- But fathers, much maligned trary, an impression has been though they be, are noble fellows. reated, rightly or wrongly, that They can rise above their natural
roach to the refugee win- chagrin at the result of the
Ing problem has
vestigations so far as it that there them personally, and patr
oice that the final
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