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done and even retrospective islation is unlikely to go so far as to restore a tenant's rights after he has once been "legally" deprived of them.
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THE RENTS - COMMISSION
re-
and there is a danger of the but Commission being diverted from
its true objective. This, we be lieve, having regard to the spe- cial circumstances of the fugee deluge, must be the dis- covery of the true conditions existing, the strain on accommo- dation and so on, rather than the technical claims of landlords upon purely economic grounds. The issue has passed beyond that of the rights of investment Hong Kong, Thursday, March 10, 1938. in a free market. What is vital is whether, when no further ac- commodation is available at rea- sonable levels for the class of tenant hardest hit, the landlord shall be granted full liberty of Only one point of special em-] exploitation the principle of phasis is required in connection the bad old with the appointment by HE supply and demand. This, the Governor of a commission to feel certain from the general enquire into the rents question trend of His Excellency's an- fer Sir Geoffry, in giving an assur-nouncement in Council, is ance that legislation will be sub-from within the contemplation of Government. Indeed, those mitted with all possible expedi-ho feel the cause of the exploit- tion in the event of the Commis-ed to be a test of the good name sion finding that the degree of of good government in this victimisation warrants some mea-Colony, will find little cause for sure of restriction, expressed discouragement in the explana- ition behind the initial defeat of the hope that the members will the proposal that legislation be able to reach their conclusions should be rushed through rapidly. That hope will be
strongly shared and echoed. The
amount and intensity of public
economic law
discussion suddenly welling up in Baleful Big Ben the early days of March was by
of
Te
no means accidental: it corres- The critics whe are complain- ponded to the sudden pressure ing that whistling is a lost art of landlords upon tenants on a among the youths of London large scale, and particularly to are voicing an old grievance. Whistling in London, according the manifestation of the eviction to some people, has never
been without cause scandal; affecting as good as it was. Long years a large number of unfortunate ago that clerical eccentric the Rev. H. R. Haweis, a self-appoint- people. Notices to quit and in-ed authority on music and timations of substantial rent in-morals," ascribed the decay of creases will, in short, take effect whistling to the musical cor- ruption of our youths, brought at the end of the present month, about by listening to Big Ben. and unless investigation is swift, He always declared that from a as well as systematic, the evil musical point of view Big Ben was a "disgrace to the nation” for many folk will be long past To think, wrote Mr. Haweis, remedy before Government steps that the Lords and Commons are possible. It will come as should have sat for thirty years small satisfaction to an evicted under the hoarse, gong-like roar of that brazen fiend and listened tenant after his property has to the quarters timing the dreary been thrown on to the streets at periods of Parliamentary ora- the end of March to learn in tory, without any sense of shame mid-April or later that Govern for annoyance, and still dare to call themselves the representa- ment is satisfied that the hold-tives of 2 musical people! The ers of existing tenancies are en-thing is absurd." titled to greater protection than It has taken many more years
for us- some of us that which common law and local and out that Mr. Haweis statutes now provide, and that right, or at any rate to agree 586 Government intends to restrict with him.
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