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Objects and Reasons.
1. The influx of refugees from Canton as a result of recent air raids there has, despite administrative measures to cope with and restrict it, so increased a population already swollen by immigrants seeking safety from disturbance in China that the housing accommodation of the Colony is no longer sufficient to contain the numbers of those who desire to occupy it and are in many cases willing to pay exorbitant prices for doing so.
2. The object of this Bill, which is based on sections 12 and 15 of the Rent, etc., Restrictions Act, 1923 (13 and 14 Geo. 5), reproduced in clauses 3 and 4 of the Bill, is, by restricting the landlord's right to possession in certain cases, to prevent hardship to tenants now in occupation.
3. The housing problem and prevalent charges for rent were the subject of inquiry by a Commission appointed on 9th March, 1938, and since the report of that Commission a careful watch has been kept upon the situation. It is now considered necessary to deal with that situation by the means contained in this Bill.
1st June, 1938.
J. A. FRASER,
Attorney General.
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