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Q.--What date did you write ?
A. This matter is about three years ago.
Mr. Humphreys.-What I want to know is how much it cost him?
The Chairman.--He thinks he has got a grievance, but I have not arrived at what the grivance is.
lost.
Mr. Humphreys.-Will you ask him again?
A.-I do not mind the loss, but what I feel is the amount of money the people have
It is a difficult matter to make up an account of it.
Q-I dont want the odd cents,-how many hundreds, or how many thousands roughly?
A.-Several thousands of dollars.
The Chairman.-Several hundreds of dollars a house ?
A. Yes.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-Since the new Ordinance was passed, he has sustained several thousands of dollars loss.
A.-You can't reckon up accounts. Supposing now the Sanitary Board does not allow you to partition off so many cubicles, there is a less amount of rent than you would other- wise get.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Now, with regard to cubicles, have your rents decreased in your property, since the new law regarding cubicles has been passed?
A. Yes.
Q-Now, just give us one house, and tell us what rent you had before this new law was passed.
A.-Well, besides that, the property was not worth ten years ago or so, what it is worth now.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-That is not the question.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-I dont want ten years ago.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Give us an instance where you have lost rent, say one of your houses, how much rent you used to get in 1902 or 1903, and now how much rent you get
You said you had lost rent.
to compare.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-I will explain it to him in Chinese.
The Chairman.-You had better say it in Chinese, Mr. Lau.
A.-It is hard to reckon that up,--that cost.
Q.-Give us a rough idea.
A.-70 to 80 per cent. what it used to be.
The Interpreter. He first says 70, then 80 per cent.
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