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(a) The fourth as "Chinese Hotels and Boarding Houses".
17. For the first category, the recommendation was maintenance of rates as existing on 31st July 1948, and the setting aside of
a certain percentage for the accommodation of "resident or
permanent guests" as distinguished from "transients" and Your
Petitioners respectfully draw attention to the admission by the
Committee in the report that this last recommendation was contrary
to the practice followed in the United Kingdom and other parts of
the world and that it interfered with the normal course of the
hotel industry.
18. In regard to the second category there were recommendations
for controlled rates and the setting aside of almost all the
accommodation for permanent or resident guests.
It will be noted
that except for two viz. The Lucky Apartments and The Tuk Lin
Apartments, (of which more later) these were the hotels catering mostly if not altogether to European clientele and some of these
hotels constitute those referred to in paragraphs 7(11) and 7(111)
on pages 7 and 8 of this Petition.
19. In regard to the third category, a low percentage (20 per
cent) of accommodation available was recommended for control.
20. In regard to the four th category, no control was recommended
save a possible tentative control of ten per cent of the accommoda-
tion in the bigger hotels.
21. From this analysis, Your Petitioners respectfully point out
that paragraph 7(iii) hereof is in the main supported by the
Committee's findings and recommendations insomuch that real
appreciable control is recommended only for a few residential
hotels in Class 2 catering to a purely European clientele.
22. An historical analysis is as follows :-
(a) By reason of complaints about rates from 50 European
residents of about half-a-dozen residential hotels (see
paragraph 8(11) and 7(111) hereof) Government initiated
19.
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