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Ho Kom Tong, declared and cawioned: -
The Chairman:-
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Hг Ho, you know what we are sitting for. we want to 19462
get the views of some Chinese gentlemen with regard to
the working of the present Ordinance, how it has
affected the well to do Chinese and the middle clase
Chinese of Hongkong, more particularly with regard to
cubicles, and of course any views you have to express
to us we will be very glad to hear them. As a matter
of form, Mr Ro, I must ask you who you are ? Your
name is Ro Kom Tong ?
A.
Yoz.
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What is your business?
I am Assistant Compradore to Jardine, Matheson and
Company.
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And your brothers are Mr Ho Tung, and Mr Ho Took ? 14464
Yes.
Mr Ho, you know in a Chinese house, there are
cubicles. Dont you know that Chinese want cubicles ?
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Xr Fung Wa Chun:-
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A.
Yes.
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Well, do you know the present Ordinance, - that only 14866
one cubicle is allowed on the first floor 7
A.
Yes, I know.
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Is that a good law ↑
A.
It is not.
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Why ?
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Not many people for $10 or $20 can get one floor to live on. Then they have to take cubicles, and a aubicle costs $4 or $5 a month, and they get on with that; because this Ordinance does not allow the cubicles to be partitioned off, a number of people have gone back to the country. I take it, and I am sure of it, that the Government knows it too, when there was a' census taken a while ago, that there has
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