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How much?

He has got something more to say about this.

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I dont want you to take what I lost, but I want you to

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take what the public lost.

That is quite right, Mr Li.

He can only speak as to facts. He can only speak for 19943

himself.

There was a piece of land that I was agent for a friend about it. It is 100 feet square. It is at Yaumati, and thinside is in Temple Street. That side (indicating) is a hillside. But on the fovernment land,

50 there is a lane of 38 feet, but they have not laid it

out yet.

When he says "laid out" he means they have not

surfaced the road?

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When he bought it, there was a hill there, and accord-

ing to the conditions, the road will be out.

Now it is heing dug out. What I am to tell you, is

what happened several years ago, before it was out

down. The plan of erection was six shops on this plot

of ground facing the street.Then a lane was made at

the back, 30 feat wide. Well, the shops ought to have been made facing the hill. The Government take down the ground, hut the Government did not take down, so the shops had to face the same way as the others. I had six of those shops, but there were 30 altogether in the street. Then the Sanitary Board required that open spaces should be made, open to the sky. I replied I argued with the Sanitary Board. I wrote to them. I said that we really should not be required to have opan spaces, open to the sky, if the Government would dig away the road. Than the chief entrance would be towards the hill side. I was unwilling to make those djan spaceg. I pot no answer. Put the 30 shops all did

the people. thai,

and 30 17 was un injur

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