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with a road of 15 feet, and after a time, the

Government sells all the land round about it, and high

buildings are put up, quite in accordance with the law,

Dive years after that, the Government say that that

little building, which was built in the middle, la

insanitary, not per se hut on account of its surround-

ing. Dont you think that that is a cassof hardship ?

It would neem 80.

And arent there many such ouses in Hongkong ?

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I dont know them.

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buildings are insanitary solely on account of the

narrowess of the streets, and the height of the

buildings they are surrounded by ?

I would put it the other way round.

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I would put it that way.

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I say that the houser have been built too hipt for the

width of the street.

And do you think that any housen have ever been built (1990

here,

which have not been built in accordance with the

law at the time they have been built.

I am afraid the law was

I dont way the law was bad, but whether they were in 1999)

accordance with that law,

I think a great many of them have been built before

there was any real law.

uite so, what do you mean when you say "real law" ↑ (5992)

I mean to say any law, such as we possess today, with

all those restrictione as to what may or may not be.

quite no, but there are many houses built within the [1993

last two years, since there has been a Building

Ordinance, which are unsanitary under this Ordinance,

and have had to be altered.

They have had to be altered, yes.