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used as a drying room, store room, or pantry".
Was it not that no oubicle could be erected unless it
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had a window of its own ?
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Section 153 provided that no cubicle or room should be
constructed or maintained within any storey of a
d omeatia building hereafter erected, unless such
cubicle or room was provided with a window, &c. That
you will notice says "hereafter erected". Then 154
required cubicles or rooms in existing buildings to
have windows or skylights.
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Did you not advise the Government that Ordinance No 1
of 1903 would permit of two cubicles being erected on
each floor, except the ground floor ?
The only explanation I can suggest which may have
given ground for the question is that I may have
advised that a cubicle could be obtained round one of
the front windows of a house, and if the yard was big
enough, a second cubicle around the window into the
back yard.
Did you ever study that question, practically, by (5.993 actually visiting Chinese houses, with a view to understanding exactly what effect the Ordinance would
have on cubiolss ?
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Yes.
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Do you know that after you went on leave, it was found that in the majority of Chinese houses, two cubicles
oould not be erected, - in fact, not even one ?
I cant say what happened whilst I was away on leave. I
know the Ordinance was altered while I was away on
leave.
On your return, did you find that such had been the 15995.
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On my return, I found that the Ordinance had been
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