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To follow Im. Thorners Evidence. Pape 2603.

M. Homer's

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Hongkong läth March 1907.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Dear Cha·MAN,

With reference to the Sanitary Board Commission or paper 2600, 2601, quentzuns 20970 -20973 I have been wrongly reported. After having an:wered "Government practically said, all right, you give the scavenging lane for rothing and you can have permisator tu sreet the verandah you want, I went 'un to relate a case which happened to

me, viz.

"We Ruhriitted to the P. V. D. plans for the erection of 13 housea at Kowloon and at the same time xen' ir a claim to the Colonial Secretary for the scavenging lane ahew. therein, ir accordones with the provisions of section 180 (1) or Oroinarne 1 of 1903, some months later after the work of building had heen started and the plane conic not be altered, we received a letter from the Government saying the Governor in Council on the recommendation of the Sanitary Board had granted an exemption from the provieich of the scavenging lane and considered and therefore there was no claim før componestion to * although we strongly, objected to the way our clients were being tricked out of the compenuation they were entitled

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to it was of re

Later on plans and an application ware submitted for the erection of verandahs over the public fuctpath to 4 of there housec. Xuch *e. our astonishment we were informed that this would not he approved unlei: we handsɑ the scavenging lane. before referred to over to Govermiert. We pointen out that Govermert had already informed us that scavenging lanes were not coneiiered necessary to this class of house, the regult of a long correspondence being that our clients were only allowed to erect the verandahs on giving an undertakir.g that these lanes should be kept open free and unobstructed as long as the randkhs remained in existence.

Yours truly,

A. Turner.

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