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Not Chan Swim Ho
What I think is, if you speak about six feet, that
n early all the houses are higher than that,
partitions are over six feet.
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And would six feet be sufficient height to comply with
the Chinese idea of prízsoy ?
19.388
A.
Yes, a man is not six feet high. But if you make the
law say six feet in height, then nearly all the houses
in Hongkong will have to be done over again,
the cubicles.
I mean
yr Shelton wooper:-
But why? What are they today then?
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The Chairman: -
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I take it that they are 7, 8, or 9 fest. I mean those
that use the door partitions.
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Mr Chau, What we have in our mind is: We would like if
it were possible to recommend to the Government to
increase the number of cubicles, for the sake of the
privacy and decency the Chiness expect, but in order to
do that, we want to do it so as not to interfere with
the sanitary condition of the houser. That is to say,
the light and air possible. And in order to do that, wo
want to make the partitions as low as possible, so as
to get light and air into the rooms. Now, is it not
better to have three cubicles with six feet high part-
ons, rather than one with an eight foot partition, because the other one with the eight foot partition
might look more artistle ?
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I understand what you say. Your idea of having aubicles
is a good one, but we Chinese like to see these doors
as partitions. It is not the poor class, but the
people of the middle class. Vell, as to those doors
used as partitions, it is only the lower four or five
fest that are closed up. The upper portions of them are
Cpen work.
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Is it a matter of smtiment only, of liking those better
partitions, or is it that it drowns the sound of what
takes place inside, and adda to the privacy of it
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