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Tu fai than c

19791

shops have to he

cone twice a year.

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Mr Lau chù Paki-

A.

Do seu oo001)

Хев.

e whole building ?

The Chairman: -

A.

A.

9* 9.

A.

Mr Lau Chu Pak:-

J

Then, that would be done once a year, or you need hot'

do it at all, if it is clean.

I have been to foreign firms and Compradores offices,

and it seems to me as if there are lots of cobwebs

and so on, and it does not look as if they are done

twice a year.

Do I understand you to mean that some houses are 19.793

dirty, and because they are foreigners offices, or

the Compradoreɛ offices of foreign firms, they can he

dirty, and if they were Chinese, they would have to he

done twice a year?

Yen. Not only 11 doesnt look twice a year, but it

does not look as if it has been done once in two

YOATS.

19794

No, hut the law as to limewashing applies to public

houses, and not to private housOS,

Well, I know something about that.

(To the Interpreter) and you tell Mr Ku, that in a '9795 — i Compradore's office of a foreign firm, the fokis dont

sleep there, but in a Chiness firm, the Tokis aleej.

there,

and sometimes ore of the floors is occupied by

the master's fally. That is where the difference

comes in. If he takes a building, and uses it

entirely f an office, he need not limewash it twice a year. If it is clean, he need not limewash it at all.

A.

As far as the offices (are concerned) it does not look

as if it were done once in two years,

9.

What does the limewashing cost ?

19796

A.

Well, white washing used to cost a little over a

dollar for a floor.

Q.

How long ago 1

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

CO. 537

37

OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE Y WITH

RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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