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there were material scata.. Material creasing the cust" of production. had gone up and therefore building Hongkong lived by production to a Ordinances which were designed very large extent, and anything provide houses of a certain kind of which tended to affect production! roaterial would have to give way was harmful to both workers and und be re-examined, so that they

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Mr. Heconded the amendment.

Extraordinary Demand. The Chairman urged, replying to

tion; it lies at the root of the highest prices, unless they were granted at home that the appoint.Supply all the houses required infr. Lo's remarks, that they could

bad

was- due to SOUN *xfent to rings formed by contractors, Ang- The second channel of enquiry thing of that kinti must be absolute... the Commission wight by broken. What the Colony need- Various aspects of the housing Fursue. Mr. Alabaster proceeded was ample houses at moderate that of land values, tents, so that it could hold its own problem were discussed at length was

To the cost of every bouse with other places and enable menta at a public meeting. held under! the suspices of the Constitutional built a premium must be added live in comfort.

Mr. J. H. McGuigan considered] Reform Association and, the Kow to pay for the land, and if Crown

land was sold as it was to-day,, the that the resolution was not strong] loon Residents Association, as the

tremendous competition created enough. The present housing con. City Hall last evening. The large led to an increase in the cost of ditions, he said, were responsible attendance showed the great in-

building. Mr. Alabaster quoted terest taken by the general public the Causeway Bay Tot sold the not merely for a great deal of ill- in the question. Several excellent speeches were made and all the other day for six timen the upret health and suffering but for, the resolutions, already published, were price. That cast had to be added destruction of human life. During to the cost of building. It would some years the loss of life from carried practically unanimously.

the Government diseases arising from overcrowding great improvement in housing on an amendment, substituting the The Hon. Mr. H.E. Pullock presidede better if and was supported by the members creased the amount of land avail. was appalling. If they were going ditions. They might just as rea-words "antil the report of the KELVIN MOTORS" of the Committee of the Constitu-able rather than restricting it ant to do anything worth while they sonably enquire why fish were not honsing commission has been re- remedy for caught on the Fesk. He suggested ceived" for "until such time as the tional Reform Association and Kowiccreasing the competition for what ought to suggest a

little there wa5. It was also a fact this state of affairs. The resold that the Government be asked to supply meets the demand. - loor Residents' Associating.

that lan:1 Mr. C. G. Alabaster submitted

adtion was far too mild. The appoint abolish the taxation of houses and physically possible to build houses ment of a Housing Commission, Mr. raise the revenue by a mix on the the first resolution:

varied in value from something like

value of land. "If you remove the McGuigan considered, seemed to "That the Housing Problem is

jobstacles." Mr. McGuigan con- the most serious problem on balls cent a foot to about șico a

inot. It

impossible him to be only a way of delaying fronting the local Administra-!

put up a reasonable building at the the question. It was taken for cluded, "the Chicese workmen wilf high cost of hiring, it explains, in

not possibly say that either the Hongkong."

The Chairman having thanked } shortage' of land or the high cost large measure the constantly in-ky scrapers. Land of the cheaper ment of a Royal Commission was

values could not be brought with simply the way of shelving a ques the speakers for their recommenda of building was due to the Rents creasing rate of wages, and by the ¿vercrowding entailed it con- the building areas unless the tion. A solution of the housing

the Ordinance. The reason for the stitutes a perpetual measte to communications were improved, problem could only mean that the ticns, put the resolution to

meeting and declared it unanim-difficulty was that there of life attributable to

was' an By communications be did cat loss the bealth and well-being of the

ously carried.

extraordinary demand for houses community, and that therefore mean merely roads. No one who housing conditions should cease.

in the Colony. Rnet Restriction.

That demand, bad to go to work every day want-" Failing to solve the housing pro-i the Government he asked to apled to walk ase or six miles there blem or delaying the solving of it

Mr. L. M. Whyte moved the during the last few years had point a Commission to inquire

and back. They wanted some meant that the loss of life must go second resolution:

been dud ta the disturbed state of into the Housing Problem and

the roads-something on from year to year. During the That this Meeting approves the the neighbouring provinces in Transit questions in connection thing on

ebeup and something quick.

last 30 years the housing question extension of the Bents Restriction China, which had caused A large with the sane.**

One of the resolutions to be had formed an ever-recurring sub- Ordinance and considers that, in iafax of Chinese into the Colony.. Building Costs.

moved by another speaker referred ject of discussion in the press, the the best interests of the com. Director of one of the steamship. Mr. Alabaster said that rather to tramways. These would have platform and Farliament. Gevarn

munity, the Ordinance should be companies mentioned to him the more than four years ago, in an to be considered by the Cam-

ments had enacted legislation in an continued until such time as the other day that in times of distur mission, as well as buses. adjoining room in that building, a

that the empt to solve the problem or at

supply meets the demand.

bances in the neighbouring pro must be remembered weeting passed a resolution by a

least improve housing conditions:{

Mr. A F. B. Silva Netto vinces he had known no less than very large majority asking the the great cities which were grow.

-50,000 people-ner temporary re Government to appoints Comp 10 the Colony were separat. but conditions had got worse all the seconded.

Mr. M. K. Lo said he would like sidents come down to seek refuge missing to enquire into the heusinged by the harbour. There was time. Mr. McGuigan quoted from

bridge and ca a press article illustrating the con-lo move an amendment that the in Hongkong in the course of three problem and various questions in tunnel connecting the two cities, ditions in Birmingham, and point-Reats Ordinance be continued until days, às most of the speakers connection therewith. weden the the situation now and they could only be brought into ed out that the housing question the report of the housing commis pointed out, they suffered to » was worse then it was then. He close touch and developed properly was at the present time occupyission to be appointed under the great extent from the shortage of proposed, therefore, to ask the if an up to date system of ferries first place in public attention. "I

The recent grea; do no: wish to discourage you." Mr. first resolution had been received. land, but he hoped that that would meeting to reaffirm the resolution was inaugurated

t be remedied, to a great extent i passed then. The Commission, it development in Shamshuipo had MeGuigan proceeded, "but I think One aspect of the question appointed, could bare useful heen greatly contributed to by put you have got to realise, if you are which he desired to direct attention the resolution which he would have lv deveted its enquiries

iato ting on a better class of ferry to going to solve the housing question was that under the Ordinance all the honour to propose later o three channel rats. build- seve that district. But that class in Hongkong, that you will have to new houses were exempted, with with regard to military lands was ing costs; secondly land val of ferry was not good enough. They get this Government to do some the result that most of the specula acceded to by all the powers, in

thing far more radical than has tors and investors in land served terested If the military were ums: and thirdly, communications. With regard to building custs, they

this Colony as good as they were in een done la England-something three months notice under the Rents moved to other sites away from had, as they all knew, risen enure

other parts of the world, for in for in this resolution."

mere redeal than you are asking Ordinance and turned the tenants the centre of Victoria and Kowloon, only had the What was out, in order that the houses might the public not mously during the last few years, and it had become practically im stance Sydney and San Francisco, wanted was that they should ask be pulled down and re-built and advantage of having sites at their possible in certain districts to build, la connection with the development the Government to take the taxes nut be affected by the Ordinance disposal for building on, a bouse which could be let at an of communications, the Commission off buildings and put taxes on land They had this curious result, that land actually ready for building. ecounmic rent. This was not due might recommend the establishment values.

whereas they had two houses ex. What they wanted was land avail. entirely to the rise in wares. It of a Beard of Communications. Mr.

artly the same in size-one pew ble for building, and that they was true that wages bad been in Alabaster was not an advocate of an

would get if the military removed creased all over th gorld, but unnecessary number of Boards, but "Some of us were taught to pray and the other, old--the one

With regard to the housing of the building costs. bad cut risen in he pointed out that the advantage 'Give us this day our daily bread, let at exactly twice the rent of working classes, the

The Rents Ordinance pry other places with the speed that a Beard of Communications would and now we want to add to that other. they bad in this Colony. One of

be that the different departments and also habitations fit for human duted a class of what he might thought it possible thas the Housing the cnuses was the insufficiency of

communications beings to live in. If our prayers call legalised and licensed profiteers Commission would recommend to the skilled labour, and the Commission which dealt with

Lord sent in rent. There was no limit to the Government a scheme for patting up houses by the Government near- might well

enquire loto the would be able to co-ordinate their were heard and the

down

to rent except the limit which WAX Cause of the insufficiency. An ideas and policy. He considered half a million houses

Hongkong, 50 that you could set up by the law of supply and places where the men were employed. other Was

the multiplicity of that there were many proposals select just what scit of house demand. M. Lo said that his ex. As to the rebuilding of old houses.. profits. In Hongkong we had pigeon-holed in one or other of the

Mr Pollock, thought they must e system cf sch-contracting departments in the Colony because you liked, do you think," Mr. pericace, thowed that it was Had sub-sub-contracting. with there was no Board to co-ordinate McGuigan asked, "that the housing working class who suffered most.cognise that a good mapy houses in A problem would be solved? Not a For the most part they lived in the City of Victoria were some so or on the same job, all getting the concluded by formally moving the be that you would have to get lords found it profitable to pull rived when it was sipe for them to bit of it. The first difficulty would dilapidated houses, which the land- 60 years old, and the time bad ar.. ame profits. There were too few head contractors. The Commission

places to put the houses in. a half million houses and all look-people were left homeless, and they check rebuilding of old houses. With down and rebuild Some of these be rebuilt. He did not think

would be a wise thing to attempt to might well enquire into and break down any contractors' ring, if such

ing for sites. don't you think the could not go back to the houses Mr. W. S. Bailey, in seconding, price of land would go up just in less they were prepared to pay existed, by making all sub-cou pointed out that a great proportion proportion, and you would have to what was demanded. Mr. Lo hoped tractors into independent cou.

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pay just as much for land then as the meeting would not give a de-Lo, Mr. Bailey and Mr. McGuigan other: Another scheine they could dockyards and ether industrial con- for houses and land now." Mranite pronouncement that the Bents that it was important to consider the adopt was that of standardisation, corns were compelled to walk long McGuigan considered that the real

continued housing question from the point of There were, in most countries, distances to work owing to their be difficulty of the housing problem Ordinance should be people who practised the profes ing driven away by the high rents was act the building of houses but until the supply exceeded the de-view of the workmen as well as those of higher up in the social scale. (Ap- sion of quantity surveyors, but her charged in the vicinity of their em- the getting of sites. "I think wemand. because such a there were no such pernas. Cop ployment. The workers were, there. ought to say to the Government, he affairs would not be brought about plause). Replyins to Mr. Lo's sug-i tencts were put out for tender fare, put to expense and hardship. proceeded, " 'stop taxing

for another 90 Fents. "The Lord ratión to continue the Rents Ordi so there

was an extraordinary The high cost of house rent had also You are destroying human lives. A only knows what will happen in 20nance until the report of the Com diversity in the prices quoted. If there

to do with the high cost of living, great any lives have been lost al years time if the people who build mission was made, the Chairman did: professional were

and the Colony was therefore at a ready and we do not want any more new houses are allowed to charge to think that any Government, could juantity surveyors, who tell exsetly the amount of material disadvantage in competing with lives lost in future. Now stop this whatever rents they like whilst the however zealous and energet to be put into every contract, it other ports in the East for work and taxation of houses. So long as old dwellings are still subject to would, the day after the would be easter for the Chinese business. The lúgh cost of living the land system and the taxation, the Benta Ordinance," Mr. Le been received, shy that ecntractors .to tender. Lastland of rents had the effect of in system remained they would get notadded, amid applause. He moved

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