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framework, filled in with Briek and plastering ↑ They would not aland tha typhion,

A wadon frome is stronger than brick, and aladë the syphoon batter than a brisk work house,

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The beams are all set dn stoño.

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They rot where that góês into the atone.

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They are set on the stone, and lakd in position by the

carti walls.

Mr Shelton Hooper:- Damp gets through, and dry and wet rot.

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I think, as I have said just now, that as there is plenty of room in the Kowloon Peninsula, it ought to be

out up in areas, and houses should be built, which are suitable. The people come to Hongkong, and use the

places, as they would do their hats in the native

villages. The result is that our lanes simply stink

with miles upon miles of horrible waste pipes.

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The Chairman: »

The ordinary Chinese house in the country, is usually a

two storied house.

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I should not object to an upper floor, which could not be separately let. In there houses, we have selected, we have allowed for a floor in which people can sleep. Dont you think something can be done, to make these 13,843

measures less draatio ?

No doubt. The Government can do something, if they

would.

Do you know that the Royal Commission on ouhig space (3144 fixes the area at 300 oubio feet ↑

I know in England the oubio apsoen are vary often for

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oirammetanoon they think 300 auhio fast good enough.

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