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Chau gui Ki, declared and cautioned:-
The Chairman:-
What is your name ?
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A.
Chau sui Ki.
And your business ?
A.
M. Chan Sun Hig
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Secretary of the Chum On Insurance Company. I am also
in several others.
I wont ask you to explain all your business, but you 1937)
are Secretary of your Company ?
A.
Yes.
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Mr Pung Wa Chun:-
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Well, Mr Chau, as you know, we are sitting here toʻ
take evidence in connection with the working of the Building Ordinance, and, among other things, we wish to go into the question of how this Building Ordinaşca has
affected the Chiness of all classes with regard to
their houses, and more particularly with regard to the reduction or the abolition of cubicles in Chinese
houses, and, secondly, we think that a few Chinese gentlemen of the standing of yourself might, with great advantage to us, give us their ideas on the subject, and we will, of course, he vary glad indeed to Facommen what you have to tell us about the cubicle question, ari albo we shall be glad to hear any remark you have to make about the effect this change has had upon the
Chinese houses of Hongkong.
Mr Chau, can you tell us what difference it makes, 19373 according to the present Ordinancs, to the middle alasn
of Chinese,
the abolition of cubicles ↑
Yes, there iɛa difference. The law used to be 8 feat for the space of a cubicle. The house was 50 feat in depth. 8 feet is deducted for the kitchen, and that leaves 43 feet, and then 3 feet had to be deducted for
the walls, and that left 39 feet, and then, with 8 fest for a cubicle, you have got three cubicles and a small
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