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Yours truly,
K. FLETCHER-VANE. Holm. Ba m. Kent, June 12.
HOUSING}AT HONG KONG From Capt. . F. PLUGGE. M.P.
Sir I have been asked by British dockyard correspondents at Hong Kong! to draw your attention to the continuing in the very serious housing position island.
My correspondents have forwarded me a very large number of extracts from it would local papers, from which appear that, as the law stands, these British tenants are liable to be turned into the streets at any time. and the justices are, against all their private feelings and sympathies, forced to ad- minister the law.
Since the beginning of the year there has been an increasing campaign carried on by all the newspapers in the colony against the injustice which tenants are suffering owing to their exploitation by landlords, who are mostly of Asiatic origin; and the leading articles have denounced the Rent Commission ap- pointed, by the Government, but which has been of very little use, and even the himself. in no Governor
uncertain But still evictions continue manner. and rents soar to heights never dreamed of before.
I hope Mr. MacDonald will be able to look into the position of British residents in the colony. mostly employed on Government work. because otherwise they will be homeless speedily, or else will be forced to pay rapacious landlords the huge rentals demanded-rentals which, of course, the wealthy refugees! from the Chinese mainland are only too ready to pay.-Yours faithfully,
LEONARD PLUGGE. Hamilton-place, W., June 29.
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