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particularly with regard to cubicles, and of course any views you have to express to us we will be very glad to hear them. As a matter of form, Mr. Ho, I must ask you who you
Your name is Ho Kom Tong?
are ?
A. Yes.
Q. What is your business?
A.
I am Assistant Compradore to Jardine, Matheson and Company.
Q. And your brothers are Mr. Ho Tung, and Mr. Ho Fook ?
A. Yes.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Mr. Ho, you know in a Chinese house, there are cubicles. Dont you know that Chinese want cubicles?
A. Yes.
Q.-Well, do you know the present Ordinance, that only one cubicle is allowed on the first floor?
A. Yes, I know.
Q.-Is that a good law?
A. It is not.
Q.--Why ?
Then they
A. Not many people for $10 or $20 can get one floor to live on. have to take cubicles, and a cubicle costs $4 or $5 a month, and they get on with that; because this Ordinance does not allow the cubicles to be partitioned off, a number of people have gone back to the country. I take it, and I am sure of it, that the Government knows it too, when there was a census taken a while ago, that there has been less people, because there have not been enough cubicles.
Q.--Do you think you ought to allow as many cubicles on a floor 30 feet long, as on a floor 50 feet long, or do you make some distinction ?
A. There should be a distinction.
Q-Well, say a house including kitchen and yard, 50 feet long, how many cubicles do you think the Chinese ought to have?
A. Three or four.
Q.-Ought to have three or four?
A. Yes.
Q. To make the rent $5 a cubicle?
A. Yes.
Q.--And what about the 30 feet room?
A-Two to three.
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