1937-11-19 — Page 10

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Editor

Landon, W&C.2.

To Contributors.

ven the po01:

us can become, in

environment, a good

intended for A row of Chinese flats in Yau- be addressed tomati has been acquired for the and be d mpanied by introduci nof the experiment Address, and, we understand, one of the

Subscript

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to be followed in the ssion of tenants will be that they will not be expected to pay any more for quadrupled accommodation than they hay been paying a principal tenant. other buildings. The reasoning

and the proposal is the ob vious one that, in all probability, the total of their capacity to pay The wedding between Miss Olga is already being exacted from Maria de Gastro Basto and Mr them. The point is of special

as been found Fernando Jose dos Remedios will terest because lake place at 10 am on Saturday, that on this basis, with the pro- November 27th, at St. Teresa's fit otive gone,. Church, Kowloon Tong. No invita ants will quire to be subsidised tions will be issued but relatives in any way, that expansion of the and friends will be welcome at the scheme would reduce this margin Church and afterwards at the re still further, and that Social Set- ception to be held at 29, zanvile

will go far towards pay-

Road, Kowloon 200 250 ing for them Ives What short-

fall there is will be met by volum tary iption The beauty ject, is here, that it at possibilitie normous power of improve

eneral, betterment of

Hong Kong, Today, Nov 19, 1937

HK'S NEW SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

The announcement made yes-

lof

OF

ditions of the poor

terday of the launching in Kow while making minimum calls up- loon of a new social experiment, the charitable purse. The scheme, we understand, seeking to provide better hous-pre ing conditions for the Colony's is being manced, as far as it is poorest carries behind it an idea necess by the small grou that cannot fail to arouse wide responsible for it, but it is appar interest and sympathy. This ent that indication by, say, twe matter of gross overcrowding in hundred individuals of their foul premises and the parasitism ingness each to subsidise a si of the so-called principal tenant family the extent of $1 or $2 is a subject which has been a month would enable the estab gathering momentum in impor-lishment of fifty such Settle tance every day as it presses ments within a short time, hous- more and more upon the lives of ing perhaps 2,000 people. those who go their way fondly scale of operation such as this believing that. they are beyond would, we do not doubt, be out- its touch. Every week sees made the scope of the Kowloon round about a hundred deaths in group responsible for the ima the Colony as a result of tuber-tion of Social Settlements. The culosis. Every year sees an idea, however, is one worth the alarming increase in the general study of all who concede due im incidence of the

And portance to Hong Kong's housing has beer, evils and the urgent need for all in any way, concerned with the modes and manners of remedies. gravity of this problem, even if

every individual urge.

he has not considered the evils Commerce And Heroi of our shum tenements from any

more

dous infu

other viewpoint, has become ever The figures provided in the by the tremen-House of Commons by Mr. W. G. these appalling msby-Gore, the Secretary of conomic ave had upon State, regarding the

to Hong Kong of

sium condi

the s

Ove

sease.

and the princi-

pal tenant are, of cou

tricably one and the same pro-the blem in the long run, and any ex-file

Iperiment which will eliminate

minor landlordism of the type garden is rosy- - prevailing on every floor in hun-only a few firms laye dreds of local households, is al to a genuine grumble. ready well on the high road to economic aftermath, which the achievement of reasonable will furnish the true test, accommodation for the poverty-course much too early stricken at rents they can afford to assess, if it bears to pay.

tion at all.

however,

Social Settlements, as he pro One happy ject has been titled, puts this at which may not have passed

ced in official quarte the forefront of its programme,

reduction in the but goes much farther in its am-

few months of heroin-trafic bitions It aims, sphere

tivity. A case which came

This

as the first, for

settleme

educe illiter

lof

nates the elemen and nutrition, to

stunted lives and to deny

the

little humanity into

monstration the

tion

outlook is possible

and the

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