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The Chairman:-

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We Chen Sen HZ

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In the first place they are open to ventilation.

Then it costs a lot of money to put up cubicles, but

those partition doors only coat one or two dollars

sach, and they can be used in any place. Then if a

partition is put up, it costs several dollars, and when

it is taken down, the wood is usless, and there is

the labour, and whereever I have been, the Chinese of

the middle class all prefer these door partitions, and

I should say that even in Hongkong about half of them

are that.

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But there is no particular reason why the doors should

be made so high, is there ?

It must be that, because the doors are seven or eight

feet in height, Chinese measure,

yr Shelton Hooper:-

The Interpreter:-

Can you give he height an English, because for comparative purposes, we shall get mixed up? Seven feet Chinese would be eight fit. Roughly 14

inches and a fraction is a Chinese foot.

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There is this custom about the door partitions, that

they are more open than the other partitions.

4r Shelton Hooper:-

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Yr Lau Chu Pak:-

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Mr Shelton wooper:-

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What does a cubicle cost, if you have a floor 50 fast/9394

by 5 feet, aid you were to divide that up into three

cubicles ? What would those cubicles oost to erect in your fashion ?

Which do you mean, the partitions or the door ones ?

The door ones, ·

just roughly ?

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Sometimes they use the doors caly on one side, but

some people have them ca both sides of the partition. But I mean the cheapest form of his fashion.

$1.50 each door.

One cubicle 8 feet by 8 feat ?

That would be $12 one cubicle.

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Therefore it would cost you say $56 to divide up a 19398

floor in your fashion

No, it is not that, because the inner ones would not

road the door. They would have the partition.

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