(ONCRETE measures to deal Shanghai, July 17. with the rental situation in the French Concession were adopted yesterday morning at the first meeting of the committee of enquiry to study the rental situation, established by the French consular order of June 20.
The meeting was held n council chambers with M. P. Auge, Consul-General for France, presiding.
Rd. d'Hooxhe de a Gang sion here who. Isp committee, "told the Daily News" that among other things committee will make a thorough resignation Into so-called local toms regarding rental and other hous questions. Chinese courts in the French Concession often decide rent es according to custom, {Hooghe said that many objection have been raised in the past as to the veal customs here. It had been eons tended by certain quarters that the courts sometimes were in error as to what constituted custom on a given housing problem. The primary object the committee wilt be to sift all the evidence they can got -on what local euistoms really are, War Savings Well.
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