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clubs under the guidance of the Education or Social Welfare Depart- ments. A community centre was built in the Wong Tai Sin estate in 1960 with funds provided by the United States Government and another centre was opened in Kwun Tong estate in 1964. A new community centre was also provided in 1963 by the Methodist Mission in the Chai Wan area, where there are both a cottage area and a resettlement estate.
Provision has also had to be made for the small factories which have always operated in squatter areas, more and more of which were revealed as clearance operations advanced. So that those who were resettled could continue their livelihoods multi-storey factory blocks were built. With the passage of time, it also became necessary to recover land for more intensive development formerly occupied by factories on annual permits. These undertakings are generally more substantial than 'squatter' factories and workshops but, when their permits are cancelled, the owners also have difficulty in finding alternative accommodations. It has therefore been the practice for some years to offer resettlement also to the operators of such concerns when their permits are cancelled to enable the land on which they stand to be developed, and it is largely on their account that in 1964 Government made a substantial increase in the maximum floor area qualifying for resettlement. Because of the need to use a simple design in order to keep construction costs, and therefore rents, as low as possible, a number of trades cannot be accommodated and some factories therefore can be resettled only if the owners are willing to change their trades.
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The factory blocks have industrial working space in units of 198 square feet in the older five-storey blocks, the first of which was completed in 1957, and 256 square feet in the revised seven-storey design first built in 1962. There are at present 12 resettlement flatted factories, containing a total of 733,370 square feet of net working space, mostly situated in or near existing resettlement estates, and one single storey annexe building. Rents are calculated to provide a return on capital within 21 years at five per cent per annum compound interest. They vary from $75 a month for a ground floor unit to $45 a month for one on a top floor in the older factories, and from $120 to $65 in the new factories, in each case inclusive of rates. In administering these factory tenancies the Resettlement Department checks machinery, and electrical and floor loading and
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