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19791
shops have to he
cone twice a year.
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Mr Lau chù Paki-
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e whole building ?
The Chairman: -
A.
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Mr Lau Chu Pak:-
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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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