RESTRICTED
布政司署
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香港下亞畢道
18 NOV 1975
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
WAKIU/1
(90)
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13th November 1975
本署檔號 OUR REF.: HOU L/M 38/75
*** YOUR REF.: HKK 14/1
Diese Wetten,
213
Thank you for your letter of 25 September 1975 enclosing a copy of a letter written to the Prime Minister by Mr. Cheung Kwok-kuen.
Mr. Cheung is a Government servant, employed by the Director of Housing as a caretaker at the Police Married Quarters, Aberdeen (which the Hong Kong Housing Authority manage). In May this year he made a complaint to the Director of Housing on behalf of his mother-in-law alleging, in effect, a disparity in treatment between his mother-in- law and a neighbouring tenant in the Tze Wan Shan Housing Estate over the matter of authorised occupants and the allocation of room space. He also alleged irregular occupancy of the neighbour's rooms. The complaint was fully investigated by a senior member of the Housing Department. Mr. Cheung was told that there was no irregularity in the allocation or occupancy of the rooms in question and that the Housing Manager would explain the situation to his mother-in-law. This was done.
Mr. Cheung remained dissatisfied but there is no evidence that his mother-in-law, the party allegedly aggrieved, shared this dissatisfaction. Mr. Cheung then wrote to the Colonial Secretary, now confining his complaint to allegations about the neighbour's tenancy. As a result of this the Housing Department made further investigations, including night and day checks of actual occupancy of the rooms in question. Following these investigations Mr. Cheung was again advised that no irregularities had been found. Mr. Cheung then began to challenge the interpretation of the rules and demanded to know all the names of the tenant of the neighbouring rooms. This request was referred to the Director of Housing and was properly refused.
Mr. Cheung then petitioned the Governor alleging that the Director of Housing had misled me with his reports, and asserted that the neighbouring rooms in questions were occupied by only about half the number of people stated.
C.S. 41A
A.L. Wotton, Esq.,
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office,
London, S.W. 1.
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