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that 4 or 5 inter comm

municating

Chinese houses should be erected,

the

The Council advised,

that the Colonial Secretary,

Surveyor General and the Registrar General "Consider the feasibility of adopting such a form of house as will - provide for a certain return in rent from the ground floor and give sufficient-

accommodation above."

dar

May

1888, the

Surveyor General sent in plans

for

"Chinese houses to be

erected near St. Stephen's Church, and suggested that they should consist of three stories, the upper for a stome, the too lower for shops & tenements . The lopstory, to provide

for

accommodation_

20 wonnen + 30 Girls in two

day

1.8. mirueth

to the back

h

which no

bord the for w. I have t Wades sena

7

City

day

& three bedrooms.

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Mr Lockhart reported,

1 that he had explained. the proposal to the Committée

of the Po Leung stuck who had "expressed themselves

entirely satisfied with the propped building,

ао

which

they consider, will fully meet the requirements "of the case":"

2. that he presumed the rents from the shops would go

towards the upkeep

of the Home.

His Excellency.

·lency, in a

minute on this, stated that

the rents would

Treasury.

into the

go into

In October 1888, the

-Committee of the Po Lung sluk

requested that Government - would either grant.

them a

pun

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