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Ms Chan Sein Hi hav
Many Chinese to send their families back to the
country, rather than keep them in Hongkong ↑
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I have heard so.
Qa
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Do you think that it is true?
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I believe it is the case.
Mr Shelton Hooper:-
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A.
And has not, in your experience, on account of this 9440
Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, a lot of capital been kept out of the Colony by the Chinese
refusing to invest in property?
I believe it is so, because formerly, say the valuator reckoned that some property was worth $18,000, then I would lend $10,000 to him. It is only about 60 per cent thus lent. Then, last year, the man does not give me rent, and I auction off the house for about $11,500,
Bo the property has fallen in value between 30 and 40
Yr Fung Wa Chun:-
per cent when the house was put up for sale. Formerly, many people wanted to purchase it, but now none.
How do you explain that ↑
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A.
Everyone is frightened,
Mr Lau Chu Pak:-.
Frightened of what ?
19442
نے یا
A.
Mr Fung Wa Chun:-
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A.
Mr Shelton Hooper:-
A.
The Chairman:-
About this and that.
What?
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That they must put down concrete, that they must open
out an open space, and this thing and that thing, and
not allowed to partition off cubicles, and then
everyone pays so much rent.
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"This and that", in connection with the Public Health
and Buildings Ordinance ?
Yes,
I suspect that is it.
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Are all those depreciations in property attributed by you, Mr Chau, to the present Buildings Ordinance, compared with the Ordinance, as it was three years
ago
A.
Well, I dont say certainly that that is the case. But everybody says "Oh dear me, it is such a lot of
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