PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE
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built under the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, Government stated that the 16 houses would have to t
done. Some of the tenants of the 16 houses also occupied the houses on the opposite side of the lane, and they said "we dont require a kitchen in the house on the rear side. We do our cooking on the front side portion of the house" so we sent in a plan to do away with the kitchen wall, to cut it out and make it one room from back to front. That plan was approved by the Public Works Department, but the Sanitary Board took out a summons against the owner for not having obeyed the Ordinance by opening up half the space at the rear of the house. We pointed out that there was no space to open up "we have taken away the wall". They said " Before you took away the wall, you ought to have choyed the order". The consequence was we had two tenants at the Police Court, and they were fined as the Magistrate said it was a technical cffence. They were fined $2. It must be a house whether they had a kitchen or not.
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Before we removed that wall, we ought to open up that space. We ought to have obeyed the order first of all.
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The house at the present moment has not got a kitchen. Having been fined $1, they served us with another notice wanting to know why we had not complied with previous notios. Well, I sent the correspcadence up to
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And requested that the Sanitary Board should desist
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from: rosecuting us.
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And what happened after that ?
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They got an order to drop the subject.
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