"It is with a fellow feeling that we read of the housing controversy at Home, which Reuter tells us is becoming a lively element in British politics," says the 'Hongkong Daily Press,' and goes on to con-lecture that the troubles of recent years have driven beneath the British flag, at Home as in Hongkong, many refugees "with money and able to swell the housing demand." For two years past, rents.of houses built before a certain date ave been fixed by the Hongkong Government, but this apparently does not apply te recent construc: ions. Thus our contemporary con trests a controlled block of flats, of two and three rooms, letting at an average of $50, with a new block of four-roomed flats letting at $175, and it wants to know whether the landlord can really justify this enormous difference, And the "Hongkong Daily Press" goes on te state that the land boom in the colony continues unabated and that, "houses are stil] the most_remuntrative gamble extant." In one respect. however, Hongkong may be envied by Shanghai: it has a government which can and does
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