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Could you name one or two ?
Yes, those houses of yours, 1104 I think it is.
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Inland Lot 1103 ?
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A.
Yes. There are 22 houses there.
S1 0.
A.
These were finished just before the new Ordinance 720955" These were finished just before the new ordinance of
1903, in 1902, in the end of 1902.
vr Shelton Hooper:-
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And did you get the certificates from the Building 2015 6 Authority and the Sanitary Board?
ur "umphreys:-
A.
Oh, we must have got them.
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Now this section, Mr Turner, the one that has cost the landlords of Hongkong so much money, was in the old
Ordinance of 1899,
was it not?
A
In 1899, yes.
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A.
But in that Ordinance also were aertain other clauses
in regard to buildings hereafter to be erected, which
have been deleted from the present Ordinance ?
YOB.
Well, what to your mind is the effect of these
deletions?
A.
In 1899,
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in existing houses, you had to open up this space in the rear. It then went on to another section
to say in building a new house, if it was over 40 feet in depth, you had to have an eight foot yard. Then it goes on to another section, and says that ✰✰ a block of owners could instead of having yards have a lane running along the back of the houses. If the houses are 40 feet deep, a lane of six feat is sufficient, and that was an inducement to owners to provide lanes instead of yards. If you built a house with a lane, the
Government would accept a less space behind than if
you put a yard.
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Q.
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That showed at that time that the Government were more
in favour of lanes than yards ?
A.
Yes.
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