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to build huts when their present accomodation is demolished. Your Govern- ment has stubbornly refused to concede this established right and insists that they will be herded into your doss-houses for a further six months cad no one believes that it will be six months and not a much longer period.
These tenants are going to refuse to move on the day set for demolition, 14th January. Ilo doubt you will, as you have done throughout your Governor- ship, permit these helpless people to be forced at gun-point to quit their hemes and accept the stable accommodation offered to them. It is easy to win battles with unamed workers by using armed police and demolition squads.
Christres has just passed and we have bencaned the fact that Jesus had to be born in a manger. That hone was a temporary one caused by the lock of space at the nearby inn where his parents intended to stay. But your Government, many of whose officials sing about this manger-existence at Christmas, are wilfully sending thousands of men, women and children into these inhuman conditions, while telling the world about your wonderful housing estates and new but areas.
Are you big enough to stop the tragedy at Sai Yeung Choi Street and all the other tragedies created by this wilful and continuous "acute shortage of licensed (but) areas"?
If the Sai Yeung Choi Street people meet your deafening silence again on this problem on 14th January you will have lost the respect of yet another large number of people in addition to all other victims of your Government's failure to carry out the policies of the White Paper of 1964.
Please
Furthermore, I suggest that until you can build enough licensed areas, the people be permitted to build their own huts in allocated creas? desist from demolition of homes until you are prepared to eit or build sufficient ut areas, or permit the people to build their own huts.
With deep disappointment,
I remain,
Yours sincerely,
E. Quisti
E. Elliott
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