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Yes.

As laid down here, the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, 18173

which is opennt from Des Voeux Road to Kowloon Hills,

only obstructed by the Queens Statue, - they have to =

And Sir Thomas Jackson's Statue.

Yes, I think so. Another experience: When we built

an addition to the Peak Hotel, recently, about a year

ago, we got permission from the Goverment, through Mr

Chatham, to erect mat sheds under the coolie house

there. We got permission to put this thing there, and

then we, or rather the contractor, got served with a

nuisance notice from the Sanitary Board, because he

had not got 50 cubic feet for every coolis. That is

very sensible for a building in Queens Road, but to

apply it to a building at the Peak, where you have got

fresh air all round,

Of course the next tender the

contractor gets up there, he puts it on.

That is a ridiculously extreme application of the 18774

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That has been done twice,

once at Captsin Douglas1

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house in Barker Road, and those matsheds at the Peak

Hotel.

The Peak Hotel case came before us, but these are 1875′′

most interesting cases to have. They are examples

showing the ridiculous manner in which the law is

administered.

I have other cases, but they are not in my memory.

Witness retirer.

(Take in here evidence beginning Wong Joy Chew).

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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GO. 537.

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