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The section of the Ordinace is 140.

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make your building insanitary by not having & sufficiently large kitchen. You are between the del

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Yes, you must have a kitchen of 40 square feet, unle the Public Works Department gives you a written

permission that it shall be les8.

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Then it really comes to this, that in order to carry

out the law as required in many cases, it can only be done by asking a favour of a Government officer ?

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To have the law modified in either one direction or2096=

another, in your favour ?

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And it amounts to this too, that the Government, it suits them, grants you an e xemption and winks at what you are doing, and on the other hand, frequently refuses it if it is to agst the Government a few

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And on the other hand, when it only costs the landlords, it doesnt matter?

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Oh certainly. If it is a question of providing a

cavenging lane, and the Government offering to pay for

it, you ask the Government, and the Government say

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"all right, you give us the Boavenging lane for nothing, and we will let you have & verandah . not necessary to pay compensation for it.. When the verandah application went in, the building owner had been committed to a certain extent, that he could not really do away with the lane, and when he applied for his parmit for his verandahs, they said

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