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Hotels Control through a Competent Authority on the 31st
July 1948.
(b) During the subsequent inquiry of the Hotels Advisory
Committee, questionnaires were sent out to 1,125 resident guests (as distinct from "transients") when 327 resident
guests expressed dissatisfaction with rates extant on 31st
July 1948 and 70 were satisfied with their rates (see
Schedule "C", the Report of the Hotels Advisory Committee
paragraph 8).
(c) The figures of 50 residents and 6 hotels in sub-paragraph
(a) hereof and 327 residents in sub-paragraph (b) hereof
when compared with the total number of 91 hotels carrying
on business and housing a total of 15,000 occupants or
guests fully support the analytical submission of paragraph
7(iii) of this Petition that complaint from "a very small
minority of European residents in a small minority of
hotels has initiated control of a $2,000,000,000.00
industry".
(a) Further the Residential Hotels (in Class 2) on publication
of the Committee's Report, sent in Petitions to Government
supported by accounts and analyses from the said firm of
Chartered Accountants showing clearly and irrefutably
that imposition of the suggested control rates would
render it impossible for this class of hotels to carry
on business inasmuch as all nett profits earned on rates
extant before control would be wiped out if the controlled
rates were enforced, compelling these hotels to run at
(e)
a loss or without profit.
Again the aforesaid Lucky Apartments and the Tuk Lin Apart-
ments similarly on the publication of the Committee's
Report petitioned Government to effect that :-
(1)
By reason of the unfortunate choice of the English
20.
mo.
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