The Chairman:-
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Then the fokis and employees, having their families
in the country, will want more leave to go home, and
it will cause the masters great inconvenience.
At the present moment, we will take this man of $30 (9477
or $35 a month. If he canttake the whole floor, and
if his wife and family here have to go back to their
native village, where does he live? What sort of a
place does that man go to lies in ?
According to the custom in Hongkong, a great many of
the masters when they engage they men, give them also
a place to live in, but if they dont get a place to
live in, being men, it does not matter, a number
can go into one room, and it does not matter.
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Take Jardines, yourself, never mind the Hongkong and 14478 Shanghai Bank, all your shroffs, wher. Lney have no
families in Hongkong, where do they live ?
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference:-
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We rent a house for them to live in.
Q.
That means a big flat?
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Yes.
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And they put heds all round ?
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Yes.
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And in that place, they dont mind seeing one another,
because they are all men ?
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Yes.
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Well now, if these regulations were not in forme agaist cubicles, all these men would have a flour, and have
their families up in Canton ?
If there were cubicles, they would bring their
families down here to live.
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And therefore the Colony suffere first of all beca!15@ it does not get so much rent for the houses, so much chow iɛ not provided and purchased in the Colony, and if tag rent is not ao much for the houses, the
overnment loses a proportion of rates, and the Colo-y