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قدم
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Reservation Ordinance, which
resently passed the Legislative Council without opposition Your Lordship is
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bly aware from previous
probably
correspondence that the_
capacity of Chinese
in
for living
very large numbers on a
narrour area
tends greatly
to enhance the value of land covered with housed
for their occupation
ad
compared with land used for European houses, and
thus
thus the continuous and
rapid
increase.
of the Chinese
population is having the- effect of gradually narrowing the space in the Town Victoria which is available
of
for European habitation.
Some slight effort
ex
has been made at different times to check this tendency
by.
power.
means of the which the Government was believed to possess under the original leases of preventing
the