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" institution of control.
So far as Your Petitioners are aware, no complaints
11 were received from the Chinese transients resident in the
"other 80 hotels of this Colony. By reason therefore of
"complaints from a very small minority of permanent
"European residents (who because they are permanent
"residents are therefore not properly "guests or customers"
" of hotels) in some 4 to 5 hotels, control has been put in
"to affect a $2,000,000,000.00-industry comprising 91
" hotels altogether.
Your Petitioners further respectfully submit that
"such Governmental control and interference is not really
justified because (as the investigations of the Hotels
"Advisory Committee will establish) the rates charged
only give to hotels and boarding houses a reasonable
"return in the way of nett profits on capital investment
" value of the various hotels, particularly reasonable in
"view of the many risks attendant on a venture of this
11 nature.
Your Petitioners respectfully reiterate that this
" interference occurs at a most inopportune time, i.e., at
t
a stage when the business has already passed its peak
" and is beginning to go downhill insomuch that some
" hotels have as much as 40 per cent of their rooms vacant
" at one time, and Your Petitioners therefore respectfully
point out that with control and governmental interference,
"the present gradual downhill course of the trade would
" be accelerated leading to the ruin of many of the
" businesses.
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The above does not premise in any way that the
11 complaints of the small minority mentioned are in any way
"legitimate, e.g., the lady secretary of the said Hotel
8.