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Mr Fung Wa Chun:-

years ago or sc, what it is worth now.

That is not the question.

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Mr Shelton Hooper:-

I dont want ten years ago.

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Er Fung Wa Chunt-

Give us an instance where you have lost rent, say one

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Kr Lau chu Pak:-

The Chairman:-

of your houses, how much rent you used to get in 1902

or 1903, and now how much rent you get to compare.

You said you had lost rent.

-I will explain it to him in Chinese.

You had better say it in Chinese, Mr Lau.

It is hard to reckon that up, that coat.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

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Give us a rough idea?

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70 to 80 per cent what it used to be.

The Interpreter:-

He first says 70, then 80 per cent.

Mr Shelton Hooper:-

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The loss is therefore about 20 per cent ?

We will say 20.

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Mr Fung Wa Chunt-

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Yes.

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The Chairmant -

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or what?

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Yes.

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Principally because you have had to abolish oubicles Mostly that. Well, the Sanitary Board does this for the sanitation, but then whe people are not able to

Mr Shelton Hooper:-

That means in 1902, you used to get $10 a floor say and now you are only getting $7 or $8 ?

Now, do you think that that reduction is on account? 68

of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance having

been passed ?

I suspect it is that.

Why,

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because you have had to give up your cubicles,

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have these cubicles, then it is difficult for them to

be sanitary.

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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

With poor people, there are several people living on a floor. Well, if they wish to wash their bodies, it is easfer for them to do so if they have cubicles. It is

Mr Fung Wa Chun:-

Why

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