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sfulfil on behalf of the community. To-day Britain cannot think in terms of a factory only and the workers around it. Housing must be viewed in terms of expanding and shifting industry and a popu- lation also shifting.

Planning locally is still general- ly inadequate. That indeed is a description which by many might be regarded as much too mild. For nearly three years a Com- mission has been sitting on the re-housing problem and its re- port, though long promised still not forthcoming. One of the reasons, perhaps, is that the off- cials concerned have been too busy on a hundred and one other tasks, minuting documents and All communications intended for enabling government administra-

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cedure. Plans for city develop- ment have been on paper for many years, but for general con- trol of housing, industrialisation, but and so on, little imagination ap-

pears to have been displayed. As we understand land sales, for instance, Government waits until someone comes along and asks for a site he fancies. Government machinery is then set in motion to (a) ascertain where the site is (b) how much should be asked for it (c) gazette the auction (d) eventually, after a few months or so, sign the papers and (e) make a note for the subsequent collec- tion of rates and taxes. Many problems which have cropped up in the past and may possibly crop Hong Kong, Thursday, May 5, 1938. up in the future would have been

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avoided had some vision been displayed. Much could be done. HOUSING AT HOME were Government experts to get a bit of AND IN HONG KONG a large scale map, do

suburbia planning, list all the sites it is prepared to sell, num- The jubilee of Port Sunlight, ber them and fix their prices and

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which has become famous throughout the world as the first conditions beforehand, and satisfactory example of an indus-courage private enterprise to examine official ideas on reason- trial garden city, recalls the ear- liest efforts toward planned housed development schemes from time to time. Initiative could be ing of the working classes.

roused this way: the present

The village of Port Sunlight method is one of drift. was founded by W. H. Lever, afterwards Lord Leverhulme, to

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house the workers employed in Soviet And Japan his new factory on the Mersey. Often before, during the nine- teenth century, industrialists had between Moscow and Tokyo can hardly be observed without a built houses accommodate to their own workers in undevelop-smile. In effect, Japan protesta ed areas; but many of the dwell-to Russia: "There are Russians ings so constructed were lament-fighting Japanese in China. Since able examples of the indifference no Russian moves a finger with- of employers to the conditions out approval of the Soviet Gov- under which their workers lived; ernment, you must stop them im- mediately or 'assume respon- and reformers had long been pro- testing against the low standard sibility for the consequences."

To this diplomatic "or else" accepted in all industrial areas. Lever planned a village, close to Moscow replies politely in effect: "But how could Japanese be the factory, capable of expanding fighting Russians in China? You as the workers expanded, with sound houses and gardens back haven't declared war on China, Then surely any [have you?

Russians in China must be en- Several contemporaries of Lord gaged in the same kind of friend- Leverhulme followed his example; ly operations as the Japanese. and in both England and Ameri- Our people are only seeking ca experiments were made with 'China's commercial co-operation' model villages, residential garden we believe that is what you cities, and garden suburbs. These call it."

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Onlookers cannot really be ting up a higher ideal of what amused by anything connected housing might be, a standard by with what Japan still calls the comparison with which average Chinese incident, and there may housing in working-class areas be more serious implications be-. was revealed as dismally inade- hind this diplomatic interchange. quate. Reformers began to pro- It seems obvious from develop- test on behalf of the poor, and ments in Spain, that after war soon the poor began to protest on started in China, Stalin turned their own behalf.

his back on Spain and diverted

But British public opinion no Russian intervention to the East. longer looks exclusively to the Either Soviet assistance to China individual employer nor the pri is making a real difference or vate builder to improve condi- Japan is, so afraid it will · that tions Planning is now a duty Tokyo must thus appeal to in- which the State, acting through ternational law and risk this local authorities, is expected to 'public ridicule from Moscow.