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The Chairman:-

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Mr Fung Wa Chun:-

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Supposing there are two families in the house, the

kitchen is not sufficient for their use, and the man

makes a kitchen somewhere else, to get things cooked

in, and the landlord loses on his rent.

Didnt you build a block of houses some years agó ? (4435′′

Yes, I built a block of houses. There is a lane behind

Government property, there is a street at the side,

there is a garden in front, and it is light all round.

Then, if I sent in an application and submitted the

plans, the Government would grant permission to build,

and I built. Then, a few years afterwards, it is said

this law wont do, and it has got to be altered. Then,

they say the landlords and everybody have to spend a

great deal of money. Then, if the Goverment : armits

it to stand, well and good, but if not, then you have

to engage an Architect. He has to ask for permission.

The Government does not permit it. He has got to make

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a plan, to submit to the Government, and much money is spent. It is very diffimilt for landlords to do it. And generall; (peaking, you think the law is too severe and precses very hardly on the landlord and

tenant ?

Yes.

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And in your opinion, is the new Ordinance does not 19437 allow more than one cubicle on a floor, talking of

the first floor, it makes it very hard for a respectab-

le man that in making $50 a month to stay in Rongkong?

Yes. You think about what I spoke of before. Whether a person has money or not, they want two or three cubic- los. Let us take he case of a man with money. He has

A whole floor. It is the same thing over again, but ther the poor ones are the worst off, and how can they

stand it.

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1943. Do you think that the passing of this Ordinance, and after three years of its working, han compelled a good,

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