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Li Yan (lume Card)

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Mr Shelton Hooper: -

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more difficult for them if they have no cubicles, for

they have no bathroom.

And therefore they dont wash themselves, and keep 14.772

themselves so clean as they used to ↑

A.

Well,

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it is more difficult to wash yourself, if you

have not got a cubicle.

19773

And the consequence is that the people of Hongkong are

not so olean tuday as they were before? I am

speaking of the lower clans, of course,

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Well, if there are no cubicles partitioned off,

it is 80.

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The Chairman:-

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The Interpreter:-

Mr Fung Wa Chun:-

The Chairman:-

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Is there anything else you wish to speak about? 19774

Well, there seems a great many things to me that are hardships, but perhaps you are thinking I am saying

too much.

Roughly, Mr Li, you might give us just the outline./9775)

He says he wants to say more about the cubicles.

Well, let him say it.

Well, about the cubicles, Mr L1 ↑

I wish you to understand that what I am saying is not.

for any benefit for myself. It is for the people.

Quite so, and that is why we are silting here. We want

to find out what the people's view is.

Well, I wish alac for the Governor to understand that

there is a difference between Chinese and Western

people. This is about the open space. Well, some of

us southern people in the Chinese Empire are not the

Bame. We here wish to have more ventilation, - more

wind about. Well, most Chinese are afraid to have too

much wind about the place. If they wish to be

compassionate, if they dont wish to be compassionate

that is another thing, the Government should not

ingist upon having those open spaces,

man of them. New, in Chinese houses, it is very

seldom that li-ht comes into the cubicles. There is u

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not to have so

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