and the newer concerns must work alles
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HONGKONG
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FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 14, 1938.
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provided.
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CZECH-HUNGARIAN PARLEYS GEASE
(Continued from Paga 1.)
or attract additional population, Where able to presume that the average curacy.
(See also 3. Criticism of existing accommoda- be seen that the present type of tenement more commodious accommodation can balon announced that there would be
cator
for
can
(b) The normal size of family
be assumed to be between Ave and alx per family.
(c) For thons whose" earnings are
30 between $4
creation of alums; coupled with lack of
TUITION IN ART OF LIVING
was
of
SAFE DIET FOR GASTRIC ULCERS
fugee problem quickly, lest Germany claims that there is still a Gernian minority present, or that Czecho- Slovakia la harbouring enemies of the Nazi regime-United Pressm
28. In Paragraph 20 it has been now occupy. Their presence In HONGKONG'S HOUSING | applied only to parents and their direct four children, the older childran will
offspring. As soon as one of the ebil often be earning kay suffelent to pro-stated that ecunomic pressure hecescongested, äřena reduces the amount of PROBLEMS: EFFORT TO dren marries a new family la crested. vide themselves with food. It might ritated from two to six familles occupy accommodation Avaliable for the poorer classex, forces up rents, and increases the To provide houses suitable for family also be taken as a working basis that, ing one floor to Potogrph, 20 it fù obstacles in the way of enforcement of
Great care is needed in the feeding SUGGEST SOLUTION life it is necessary to know the normal where family income is less than #4 leon stated that for a very large num, the law against overcrowding,
xico of families. On this point, un per month, rent of any sort is beyond ber of familles the amount of rent which housing is to be provided at the lowest
· sufferers · from Kaatric
and available., ihele means.. fortunately, no Agures aro
duodenal ulcers and inflammation of could normally be expected varied from possible rent it is ementia), that this clams (Continued from Page 7.)
In England, statistics show that about 21. For the purpose of housing it nothing to $7,00 per month. Reference should be discouraged from dariving
food will increase the pain and dis- necessary to civilization and there are re of families consist of between two soems advisable to clarify the popuin to the Talpation alles in Appendix 3V advantage from it, at the expense of the Malcolm, League Commissioner to the stomach. The wrong kind of
(Table 2) shows thut, under private poor for whom such housing may be Refugees.
M. Sirovy added that Czecho- comfort. In the carly stages of slependant on supplied, largely, by the "home" Induk-and Aro people. Families excoeling ixilon under three heads.
Class A.-Those who can remunerata | ownership, and are less than 10% of the total. The
34. To many people, the slum dwellers Slovakin was not giving any indüre~ | treatment small quantifies of liquid tries. To meet the demand, the factory general interession amongst Europeans private enterprise for housing necome values and has fonts, the rents fat appear to be a shifticas crowd for whom ment to Germans to enter the Czech food must be taken at frequent wystem has now made its appearance
the standard tenement must the provisión of better quarters would. In Hongkong, but at present the major is that Chinese families are large. nodation.
Glass Hi-Thon who can only afford vary between $18 and 328 per month be Waste of money. It must be re-arca and of forming further minori- Intervals. ity of such concerns are small. The Although the birth rate in undoubtedly
the vast as the Sudetens had already But strength must be maintained:
economie cir- Even at 45% nett interest rents must be cumstances. They have been been taken up by the major industries, high and, in consequence, the actual of Interest Inaumcient to attract private return expected by private enterprise, fority are the victima born and begun making further demands the body must be kept nourished:
bred in the alunts and have known no Reuter Bulletin.
That is why doctors and nursen number of living children is probably enterprise. very little greater per family than in Class C-Thora who can only be between $13 and $10. With an average other environment. Experience in inost
rent paying capacity of 15 per family countries has shown that the
NO PLEBISCITE
recommend Horlicks as an ideal food in areas already used for housing and England. Allowing for the fact that, housed at a loss.
great! 22. No figures are available from of live or six overcrowding" is inevit• majority of Klum tenants react almost the honte Industries. It is questionable throughout the world, the poorer clames
Berlin, Oct. 13.
for patients suffering from gastric whether the establishment of n
In a communique issued to-day, ulcers and ali infamed conditions of factory in a built-up eren, will provide end to have larger families than the) which the numbers in each class could able, and the law is powerless to pro- | immediately to improved surroundings.
35. In Hongkong it is true that there the International Sudeten Commis the stomach. work for the unemployed in that are walther class. It does not seem unbe estimated with any degree of event th
z. From the foreign paragraphs it can is a tendency to overcrowd, even when
Horlicks contains the essential It 15 there is no room for the existing popu- Chinese family is five or six.
Paragraph 42).
tion can now be based on certain known is not conducive to the best type of afforded. Possibly this is due to centur- no plebiscile in the Sudeten-German elements of nourishment.
family life: for, health it depends on les of life under unsailed conditions dur, region,
pleasant to take. It bullds up anergy, Intion to spread put, the replacement
10. The next point for consideration facts or reasonable ursumptions.
They through ventilation, although it occuping whicle time the herd instinct for self
The
Commission unanimously restores vitailly, without Irritating of existing houses by factories te bound
ants for the most part keep windows protection has become lighty develop to increase overcrowding.
In the normal earnings of the Chinese are.
(a) The regard for family tion closed: its cost, in relation to the normal cu: possibly it is due to the Influx of reached this decision in the after-even the most sensitive stomach. It makes over-relatives from the country, which, in com- noon, as it had been informed that gives you strength to combat a long 10. Unfortunately thear now Indus-family and how much of there earn- rent. In
Amongst the Chinese is exceed earnings of its tenants, trial concerns are ion shall to build lugs can be allocated for
ingly strong, and housing, to be crowding inevitable: by being virtually bination with the strong regard for from the populated Appendix til are given the normal raten
one room per floor it facilitates the spread family ties, leads to large numbers of the German and Czech governments ness, and shortens convalescence. inctories away
Get Horlicks to-day. for "Alfferent classes at
Matinfactory, must wagen
of disease. It cannot be described as being relatives congregating under one root. in had reached an agreement. areas. They ennnot afford to lay out of
The wages for skilled work.
family life. their workers,
The Commission established theIn these difficult times of anxiety kuited to the needs and circumstances of preference lo spiliting up into groups in capital to provide housing for
$70 per
the masses.
separate dwellings. Whatever the cause workpeople, and, even if they could, ers vary botween 30 and
the existence of this tendency must be Anal frontier of territory going to and worry, the task of carrying on where can they go? Before they can month and, for unskilled workers, be
MULTISTORIED TENEMENTS
Overcrowding alene is a Germany, which should follow the and doing work which must be done recogenich strongly tends towards the line determined by the Commission tend to exhatist one's nervous energy. g n doubly difficult one which must build they require not only gond chrup tween $15 and 24 per month. Family
Before building and, with room for expansion factory workers earn from $0 to $4
procceding to consider pair and proper maintenance of property on October 6, with modifications fairly steady arent family possible improvements it would be ade rapid deterioration inta sium conditions to which the Commission might propose and prevents that listlessness and per month. Among the poorer claxon and for housing, but adequate coin-
Horlicks builds up strength, vitality munleation and pubile servicen nach bath husband and wife usually work,
might normally be expected, but viable first, to give some attention to
a certainty. The question wheter flats or houses aro
according to the Munich agreement. as water, light and power, drainage, no their combined earnings would, if
there are large numbers who enn- | heat suited to the Chinese poorer classes. and newage disposal. If these new in- on full time employment, range from
Under the circumstances the Com-redness caused by constant nervous As most of the
not afford even these low vinta in their villages, houses are normally one: "and for whom houring can only or two storied. In Hongkong the demand dustries are not to be permitted to add $21 to 304 per month.
mission unanimously agreed that the strain. II. M. Hodges, 400-408, Asla
Life Buliding, Hongkong. plebiscile 35, The great majority however five organisation of a be provided at a losN,
for dwellings and the "Moriago of good to existing congestion it is essential poorer clannes are casual inbourers, it
overcrowded: conditions that they alioull be encouraged to is probably that, amongst thosn norm-
from unnecessary-Reuter. 24. Plans are attached which show building land has led to the erection of under establish themselves elsewhere, and the ally employed, not more than twenty
TO SETTLE QUESTION glyen a chance will react favourably to necessary provision be made for them any work per month could be relled the three main types of Chinese Lemeals. Approximately of Hongkong necessity and not from choice, and if
tenements are three stories in height and
IMMEDIATELY The cost of providing for them may be upon as an average. Proportionately ment houses which are to be found in 40 are four storied. In Kowloon where proved vironment. That some tition development is of such later date than in the art of living is necessary must be
Prague, Get. 13. prohibitive for one smalt Ben but not therefore combined earnings would drop Hongkong.
14 and $61 per monti. 25. Economical pressure, unfortun-Victoria and where, owing to wider reads, conceded. They must be tought the
It is understood that M. Sirový, for a group of arms, Theo cant, ton, to between must not le weighed against the in- When both husband and wife are unately, necessitates from two to six increased maximumn building heights are value of personal and household cleanil- mediate advantages, which any appear skilled casual inbourers, as they gener- familes sharing a floor, as a rule, and, possible, the majority of houses are only ners, the proper use of sanitary appliances, and the British refugee agent, Sir negligible, but against the ultimate ally are, a normal wage level of ben present standards In Hongkong per three stories high. One would imagine respect for property and the ill effects of Neil Malcolm, mean to solve the re- objective, which, on achievement, may tween $14 and $30 per month is the mit between ten and twelve people to that landlords would for the most part overcrowding.
37. In many European housing, schemes develope their land to the maximum occupy such a snor, then the normal intensity permaisible. As they have not is the normal practice to employ care- make the initial outlay itself appear mant which can be expected.
manner of use cannot be considered done so it can only be concluded that, takers, whoso duties consist not merely negligible. Once the nucleus of n new;
zaliafactory. The narrow and deep type not only is there no demand for many collecting renta and securing the proper cammiunity in established it will attract) further pupuintion. In auch exe
of room renders privacy possible unly storied tenements, but that there is even maintenance of the property, but who, in addition, take a personal interest in the "home Industries" character
renta at the expense of free circulation of objection to them. Industries will be favourable to decen- which can be expected from such in- light and air. The room can only be. In view of high land values in tenants and if necessary influence them Victoria, it seems fairly certain that, 11 'owards the higher standards of cleanliness: tralization. There will be ble commen? It is a generally accepted prin- dividest by means of cubicles; the walls any rehousing and replanning is to be and comfort. In Holland, and in the City
expensive ciple that rent should not exceed one of these cubleles cannot be taken up done."
some blocks of multistoried of Westminster Housing Estate in London, works Lo muve and 110 machinery to be transferred. All they fifth of family income. In exceptional to the celling, as all flight and ale would tenements will have to be erected. For it service goes even further. Women cars, where cont of transport, food, be cut off from inner compartments. faintly life there are many objections to roperty managers, with experience of want market for their water. is certain that, it farther congestion in vic, is cheap, a rent equal to one quar- They are therefore merely fixed screens fats. There are, however, according to working class life, arrange tenants to be avoided, the dbvious polier in toter of family earnings might be por- and the whole floor is virtually on the Census Report of 1931, some 100,000 their new homes and help them in every facilitate the erection of factories in missible. For the poorer working class room. In a place like Hongkong, where people over 17 years of age who are either persible way. lean densely developed areas and not to Ars uf Hongkong therefore rent should infectious diseases and spidomice are ingia or widowed. Although many are 3d. A high standard of cleanliness and
no doubt living with hele familles a farge order, as a social obligation, wait until they have established them- be between 53 and $60 per month and at ever present, the spread of disease in
number will be ving independantly. If instilled by precept and guidance and. It Delven in Victoria and Kowloon, whence worst should not exceed $4 to $7.50 per facilitated by
arrangement, mulilstoried blocks must be erected they necessary, by some measure of discipline. Manlia Он Average the maximun Whilst the Arrangement Permits of might be designed to suit the needs of Although the great majority improve with Shanghai their removal will be both difficult and month.
rent should not exered $5 per month. through ventilation It is only in very this class, leaving the lower blocks for improved environment there is undoubted expensive.
ly a minority who do not. In Holland and Japan There are, however, two other factors hot weather that windows Aro kept the use of families. 17. The type of house in Hongkong to be taken into consideration; namely, apen, and then only at the wish of the 33. High and values make the provision France there is a system of segregating Japan and Shanghal occupied by the masses has been briefly the number of mouths to be fed out occupants of the coter compartments, postule for the masses. Even with colonies are set aside for this class. In Air Mall by Imperial_Airways
uf two starled or single storied houses desirable tenants In Holland special Manila It is however retornary to
of family income and the cost of feed- The occupants of the inner cubicles can consider it in detall, to find out its deing them. If sufficient money is avall have no any in the matter.
land at its cheapest, the necessary rentrance they are not a completely isolated. fects and their bearing on the house ate the poorer Chinese normally spend
would be prohibitive for all who could but have a special portion of housing Rchemes set aside for them. In both 26. Another foult with the present not pay at least $7 or $8 per month. question generally, foes
Her or 30 per montis on food. It can type of tenement is that it is bigger 33. The question of the mixing or countries, when the tenants and sense Japan and Shanghai Accommodation suited to the needs and
bo safely assumed therefore that food than the absolute minimum require segregation of different social grades is of improved social conduct and responsi circumstances of sheer for whom it is
of satisfactory quality and quantity ment of a family, 1.9., in view af a subject for controversy in Europe and builty, they can quality for removal into Parcels from Calcutta and Straits.. Kutsang bull It does not, In what way In It defective? Is it too costly or merely cannot be obtained at less than 54 per normal porerty it in bigger than the particularly in England. Amongst the an ordinary house. The drawback to Chinese the distinction between classes such an arrangement is that, by segregat- odly planned or both? What are the Protection of Children normally mite rent
hend per month, (The Bociety for normal family can afford. When the is not so strictly regarded as in Europe. ing the worst elements, the environment, of a whole door is beyond the Differences in circumstances there are, especially as regards children. Is very little needs nad slrcumstances of the major fa netivities to thone eareA where family means, and when the law per but they do not engender sharp social unproved; in fact, in some respects it is ity of the population? An answer family income is less than $4 per head its the floor to be occupied by a distinctions which prevent the the Inst question is a necessary pre per month.) A family of four there greater number than the family can- of classes. Poor and wealthy frequently better types with which they can mix. liminary to the consideration of
Probably the interspersion of undesirable Swalow, Amoy and Foochow Sagres....Fri., Oct. 14, 3.00 p.m. fore, earning a total of $10 per month. sists of, it in only natural that the live side by side in simular housen, In
..Fri., Oct. 14. others.
18. Throughout the world it has al-
cannot really afford anything for rent spare floor space should be rented out, England it is now recognised that "whise tenants among the bobler types will do Straits, Ceylon, India, East and Rajputana...
more good, with the possibility of segre a grouping of congenial elements
South Africa, Aden, Egypt, Malta or clothing, Actually they do, pay and at a profit. This situation is syn-
G. P. O, and K. P. O. ways bern recognized, and still is, that something for these items, but only at tematically explolied and a middleman's segregation of large blocks of different required.
proper object of planning, the complete itation AY
and Europe via Marsellics duc Parcels...Oct. 14, 5 p.10. the family in the social uult. In sume
the cost of under-nourishment, making profits are thus introduced, with the types of houses is undesirable on
Marseilles. 11th November
Reg.
...Oct. 15, 9.45 a.m. countries, particularly China, family
them particularly liable to illness, and result that rents are increased for such social emunds.” Although sactal snob-
Ord.,
Oct. 16, 10.30 a.m. tles
NO strong that the termopon to attacks of infectious diseance, accommodation as the poor require or, bery is to be deplored, a complete lack "family" includes all blood relations with consequent loss in earning cap-alternatively, the area is reduced for of class consciousness can give rise to The "family" is almost synonymous Belty, and a further drop in income. which the poor can afford to pay.
situation, which can by no means boj with the "clan". For practical pur No Information is available as to turn-
regarded with equanimity. In Hongkong) 27. When the principle floor tenant there are many people occupying flats joner however the clan is to loose a inge in relation to the numbers in subleta to all and sundry family life the congested areas, who could, well
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Langston re-1 term, and too variable a quantity, to be families. It might however be reason in handleopped and parent control over afford to move to the outskirts, and pay turned to the Colony by the P. and O. | Konginoon of much use, and the term "family" is atly assumed that, in a family with| childron la rendered difficult.
rents for much better houses than they Ranpura from England.
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