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down,

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and sometimes things are broken. Though the 305

Government does compensate, it does not compensate to

the full amount. If it is their own things that have

been lost or destroyed, they they would not say

anything. But it happens that there are several

families living on one floor, and than it implicates

people. Sometimes you dont wish to throw corpses into

the street, but the people in the house will insist

upon it. According to Chinese custom, the corpse is of

the utmost importance, and now today on account of such

important matter, they dont look after the corpses. It

is only on account of extraordinary circumstances that

they would do this. Everybody knows that I have these

coffins, and the Tung Wa Hospital has them the whole

year round, still there are so many corpses thrown out

and it is for this reason..

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

GO. 532.

The Chairman!=

A.

It happens through the trouble of fumigation

Yes.

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Q.

Well, thank you, Mr Ho, - we are very much obliged för

your information. We wont take up any more of your time.

A..

I want to say something more ↑

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Certainly. If you have any suggestions to make, we are

A.

RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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only too glad to hear them.

Take a house with a drain. Sometimes the drains are

stopped up. The Inspector goes to see them, but the Inspector should tell the tenant, so that he may clear

them oul He does not tell the tenant, but he runs away

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and takes out a summons against the owner of the

property. It is not the fault of the landlord. Then it troubles the landlord, and he wastes a lot of time going up to the Court about it. If you told the tenant

of the house, - it would be the best thing for the

Government to prosecute the tenant, and if that were

done, then drains would not break so much, and would be not so much choked up. It is not the fault of the