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2,000 allege Government 'broke faith'
Two thousand people in a temporary resite area at the foot of Lion Rock Hill, north Kowloon, yesterday accused Government of “breaking faith” with them by delaying their final resettlement.
At a press conference, their representative, Mr Tam Lam, claimed that the 2,000 people had been "rounded up” in 1968 from various squatter sites and broken down houseboats and moved to Yan Yi New Village. north Kowloon, with a promise that they would he given
homes permanent resettlement estates in six to 18
months.
Department for final resettlement. but on cach ocension, they were promised that the "day will come soon.”
Resettlement was urgent. Mr Tam said, because their flimsy huts were in an advanced state of deterioration.
Several huts had already been destroyed in in
past typhoons. And people living there were considered lucky because they were resettled.
"It has been four years now since that promise was made,” Mr I'am said.
In the past two years, at least eight representations were made to the_Resettlement
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There are now 2.000 left on the resite area, still without a permanent home.
Mr Tam and he and his village committee members would call on the Commissioner for Resettlement today to seck curly resettlement.
A Resettlement Department spokesman said yesterday that Final resettlement would be given to these squatters some time in 1973 when another stage of the Sau Mau Ping Estate is due for completion.
There are at present no vacancies in the resettlement estates because, the spokesman explamed, following the June rainstorm resettlement priority was given to squatters living in a potentially dangerous area.
Yesterday evening. two representatives of the Yan Vi New Village saw the Wong Tai Sin District Officer, Mr Wong Hon kwong, about their final resettlement.
Mr Wong informed them that they would be given resettlement as
as the third stage of the Sau Mau Ping Estate was completed next year.
Mr
Wong also said improvement work on the licensed area “will proceed as planned."
This includes building a new access road, repairing damaged street lights and improving water pressure to the public standpipes.
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