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(iii) By way of footnote to the above, the following is an estinate of expenses for one month by en umarried Chinese in HONG KONG who shares a house with a friend:
Rent (half share)
Servant (ditto) Electricity
Water
Scavanger
Food (eaten outside at
$8 per day)
$ 75.00
20.00
5.00
3.00
2.00
240.00
$345.00
This does not allow for personal expenditure on commitments.
(iv) A Chinese graduate or Oxford University has octalogued the "six deficiencies" of HONG HONG as under:
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Lack of a community spirit.
Lack of continuity of residence, the majority of HONG KONG's inhabitants stay only as long as it takes them to make an adequate fortune for themselves. The exceptions to this rule are mis:ionaries, stackers and doctors, and some Goverment servats.
Lack of communal r.cilities, .g. town hall, public library, municipal theatre, public baths. Lack of local patriotism.
Lack of attention to caplints, deley and evasion usually m nage to stifle most murmurings Lack of cohesion; the Colony's population, through being split up into groups and cliques, has no idea of pulling together as one entity.
A Chinese surgeon, who lived the first 30 years of his life in CANT DA and worked at the French Hospital in HONG KONG during the Japanese occupation, seys he is more than disappointed to fire that persons whose names use to figure prominently at any Japanese function now figure equally prominently at British functions (It is noted that this complaint has been forthcoming from a number of other Chinese in the Colony).
(vi) Commenting on the behaviour of servicemen in, firstly, throwing a child into the stret from a balcony, and secondly, pitching a man into the sea from a pier, a Chinese-language news- paper in the Colony says that how to leal with these drunken persons and how to protect people from them is a problem which requires a lot of hard thinking. The paper implies a state of lozity in HONG KONG as compared with other cities, since it appears that no steps are being taken, what is the use of thinking what could be done in the matter?
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TAIKOO DOCKYKD.
It has been unofficially reported to the Civil Police Special Branch that there is a feeling of dissatisfaction among the employees of TAIK00 Dockyard on two points:-
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(2)
The
Pre-war employees have not receive payment for the first 15 days of December 1941. Company claim that no records for that period are available, but it is pointed out by the employees that the Dockyard clerical staff have nevertheless been given their pay for December 1941.
Dockyard employees have received a .C.L. allowance for September 1945.
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