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er Shelton Rooper:-
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"he Chaingan:-
A.
A.
40 Q.
way they ought not to be built more than ang storey
high.
13.838
Ie not one of the great objections to that here, fron
a financial point of view, that all the land, belonging
as it does, to the Government, that they put so high a
price on the land, that an ownar cannot afford to build
a one storied house ?
I should say you are perfectly correat. The Coverment
would then have to sell property for Chinese buildings,
and it would have to be distinctly understood by the
buyer, that if he wanted it later on to build Puropean
buildings, he would have to pay in
increased price to
the Government.
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Rut a Chinese house pays better than a Furopean one.
Thất, remains to be seen. It does in Shanghai, but I
dont know whether it would do here.
Something lately has been attempted in this way here.
Vr Perkins and myself went into this matter, and
visited some native houses in Wongmeloheong, and My
Perkins had draw up some plans, which were to be
lithographed, and the Chinese in the country villages,
who were willing to build housse according to these
plans, need not build in accordance with the Public
Health and Puilding Ordinance. Cheap Chinese native
houses, a little bit modified, so as to get an extra
window hers and there.
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It is a point I have already mentioned to the Colomiaż
Secretary,
$500 to $600, if they are allowed to build part of the
wall with mud bricks.
Why should they not be allowed to build, with a voeden
rhelton Hooper:-
What would they cost •
"Tau Chu Pak:-
"hai:man:-
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