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Do you think you ought to allow as many cubicles on a floor 30 feet long, as on a floor 50 feet long, or do you make some distinction ?

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There should be a distinction.

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Well, say a house including kitchen and yard, 50 feet long, how many cubicles do you think the Chinese ought

to have?

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Three or four.

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Ought to have three or four

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Yes.

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To make the rent $5 a cubicle

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Yes.

And what about the 30 feet room

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Two to three.

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But where I mean, you have to provide a kitchen and ☎ (4*)k

yard, how can you have three cubicles?

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Well, at least two then.

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Is it a hardship now, that people can only have one

cubicle?

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It is a hardship.

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Tell us why ?

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Take a man in Hongkong, earning $30 or $40 a month.

He has to spend $20 or $25 for a floor. He cant live

in Hongkong at all then, but if there are many cubicles then he can rent one for $5, and he can live in Hongkong. If he goes to Canton, for $2 or $3 he can get a floor or a house, - a very big house, and very confortable. If the Goverment does not alter this law,

then when the Canton Kowlcon railway is built, there will be even less people here. Everyone will go back to the country to live, and the people in the hongs

and the merchants will find it very inconvenient.