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"he Chaingan:-

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40 Q.

way they ought not to be built more than ang storey

high.

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Ie not one of the great objections to that here, fron

a financial point of view, that all the land, belonging

as it does, to the Government, that they put so high a

price on the land, that an ownar cannot afford to build

a one storied house ?

I should say you are perfectly correat. The Coverment

would then have to sell property for Chinese buildings,

and it would have to be distinctly understood by the

buyer, that if he wanted it later on to build Puropean

buildings, he would have to pay in

increased price to

the Government.

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Rut a Chinese house pays better than a Furopean one.

Thất, remains to be seen. It does in Shanghai, but I

dont know whether it would do here.

Something lately has been attempted in this way here.

Vr Perkins and myself went into this matter, and

visited some native houses in Wongmeloheong, and My

Perkins had draw up some plans, which were to be

lithographed, and the Chinese in the country villages,

who were willing to build housse according to these

plans, need not build in accordance with the Public

Health and Puilding Ordinance. Cheap Chinese native

houses, a little bit modified, so as to get an extra

window hers and there.

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It is a point I have already mentioned to the Colomiaż

Secretary,

$500 to $600, if they are allowed to build part of the

wall with mud bricks.

Why should they not be allowed to build, with a voeden

rhelton Hooper:-

What would they cost •

"Tau Chu Pak:-

"hai:man:-

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