CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12] — Page 573

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Enclosure

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong..15kh.Receber,101 1921.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No....30.......................of 191 .1921.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled

An Ordinance to amend further the Renta Ordinance, 1921,

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am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the

Governor's Instructions.

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The object of this Ordinance is to bring the leasea of non-

Chinese hotels and boarding houses within the Rents Ordinances.

In the original draft of the principal Ordinance all hotels and board-

ing houses were wholly exclu..ed.

The leases of Chinese hotels

and boarding houses were afterwarde aade subject to the ordinance

in consequence of the representations of the Chinese hotel and board-

ing house keepers.

Subsequent experience has shown that it is

desirable to include also the leases of non-Chinese hotels and board-

ing houses, and this ordinance effects that object.