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7 to 10 per cent into their pockets
- quite irrespective of sanitary conditions.
11.
There
are
property
in Stongsong who act is
view was this: to Lor
long
erriers
if their
we
get
our rents and are not acked to pay
reppeep
we do
much for repairs or not care what the savants do, inve deed we have never been inside
of
many
our houses and whether overcard-
ing, vilegal mezzanine floors rectist
y not we neither know or care. Vet
our tenants by preventing their doing whatever they like we will not or our renk would
go
o down. If we are to choose between having
our houses made.
into hot beds for plaque gerus or getting less rent, we prefer full peut and if
our houses.
-ouring
get shut
up for
a while.
we will clamour.
to a plaque sill the Government pays
us the rent
we have at length temporarily cost, oring partly at
at least fo
our every carilor d
aud
"
_-_cupidity. We
say, your,
the Govern
ment should have sent inspectors and prevented all overcrowding and in- sanitary internal constuctions and - conditions though if you by to get
wo swervo
- adequate Statritory power to ourselves the right to oppose any invasion of that privacy and freedom.
from inspection which the chineze in
Hongkong like to have.
12. When, under Ardinances of
1894.
large number of houses were resumed by the Crown it was right to give compensation to those whose property was taken permanently from them, though, in my opinion, the Jaipurigshan Resumption Ordinance ered, if at all, on the side of libera. lity.
A larger
the pro- admixture of visions of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890" such as Section 41 (of 53×54 Vict. c. 70/ might, I think, have been infused with advantage
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