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gitting room, say. Three filies could live there. But
the present law only allows one cubicle on a floor, so
that only one family can resida thers. There are also
some inconveniences. Take a family of a husband, and
his wife, and there may be a son and a daughter. Then
Bay the son is between 10 and 20 years of age. There is
no room in which the daughter can sit up for herself.
The middle class of Chinese thinks himself very well
off if he gets $50 a month. Say he gets $50 a month,
and this man rents a floor. The husband and wife live
in the cubicle. Where are the son and daughter to be ?
There is no place for them, and it is very inconvenient
in the matter of changing clothes, or attending to
calls of nature Then a man getting an income of $50 a
month, he spends $20 for the rent of this floor, and that leaves him $30. That is not sufficient for him. There is the food to be provided, and the son will perhaps have to go to school. Well now, formerly, he
could have taken all three cubicles and he could have
let one or two of these, and it would not have been any difficulty to him, whereas it is a great difficulty
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And supposing the people are living on the first floor of the house, and there is a stairway going up to the second floor, is it not the case that that stairway is
not inclosed now,
- that everyone who comes up there to go to the upper room can see in. Is that not so ?
Is it not the case that in some floors, the stairs are
not cased in, so that people going from the ground floor
to the second floor come into the room of the people on
in some of the houses, not all of
The Chairman:-
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the first floor,
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them of course?
Mr Fung Wa Chur -
The Chairmant-
Shall I put it to him in plain Chinese ?
Yes.
A.
There are very few houses like that.
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