that 4 or 5 inter comm
municating
Chinese houses should be erected,
the
The Council advised,
that the Colonial Secretary,
Surveyor General and the Registrar General "Consider the feasibility of adopting such a form of house as will - provide for a certain return in rent from the ground floor and give sufficient-
accommodation above."
dar
May
1888, the
Surveyor General sent in plans
for
"Chinese houses to be
erected near St. Stephen's Church, and suggested that they should consist of three stories, the upper for a stome, the too lower for shops & tenements . The lopstory, to provide
for
accommodation_
20 wonnen + 30 Girls in two
day
1.8. mirueth
to the back
h
which no
bord the for w. I have t Wades sena
7
City
day
& three bedrooms.
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Mr Lockhart reported,
1 that he had explained. the proposal to the Committée
of the Po Leung stuck who had "expressed themselves
entirely satisfied with the propped building,
ао
which
they consider, will fully meet the requirements "of the case":"
2. that he presumed the rents from the shops would go
towards the upkeep
of the Home.
His Excellency.
·lency, in a
minute on this, stated that
the rents would
Treasury.
into the
go into
In October 1888, the
-Committee of the Po Lung sluk
requested that Government - would either grant.
them a
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