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drawn from standpipes in the licensed squatting areas is also recommended. Squatter patrols can be formed from existing staff and sufficient departmental transport is available. When a large scale clearance is made, the assistance of Land Transport will have to be sought. The fencing and blocking up of cleared sites on Crown Land by P.W.D. may call for some additional financial provision but as far as direct expendi- ture by the Sanitary Department is concerned, the provision of $20,000.00 should be sufficient for the remainder of the present financial year.
15. Special Recommendation in connection with the Mount Davis Site. An old cemetery called the Kennedy Town Cemetery which has been closed for many years occupies part of the most suitable land on the slopes of Mount Davis. It con- tains about 2,000 graves and the work of exhumation could be completed in one month. Unfortunately, it is necessary under section 75(9) to give six months' notice of Govern- ment's intention to exhume from an authorised cemetery. If this subsection could be temporarily suspended, as it was from 19th May, 1941, until 31st October, 1946, under the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, Amendment Regulations, 1941 (vide G.N. No. 621 of 19th May, 1941, and Proclamation No. 30 of 30th March, 1946, in B.M.A. Gazette Extraordinary of 1st April, 1946) or if the Ordinance was appropriately amended the Colonial Secretary would be empowered under subsection 8 to direct removal of the remains as he thought fit. One month's notice of intention could be given and the site could be completely cleared within two months. There is sufficient ground outside the cemetery to allow squatters to be moved there immediately but removal of the cemetery at the earliest possible date is recommended, since the terraces already in existence make excellent sites. The Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital have been approached and have declared that they have no interest in the cemetery apart from one large grave which they visit annually. This will be left undisturbed.
16. Programme of Action to be taken:
(i) Certificate of emergency by Deputy Director of Health Services;
(ii) Approval by Governor-in-Council of special regulations under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, No. 5 of 1922, to deal with the squatter situation.
(iii) Approval by Finance Committee of special expenditure of $20,000 by Sanitary Department and of such sum as the Public Works De- partment cannot meet from their existing votes.
(iv) Legislative action in connection with the early exhumation of Kennedy
Town Cemetery (see paragraph 15 above).
(v) Allocation of approved squatter areas to Chairman of the Urban
Council by Superintendent of Crown Lands and Surveys.
(vi) Establishment of squatter patrols in Hong Kong and Kowloon in
cooperation with Police.
(vii) Press campaign.
(viii) Clearance operations directed by Health Officers in Hong Kong and
Kowloon with Police assistance as required.
(ix) Screening of squatters allocated approved sites by Social Welfare
Office.
(x) Encouragement of private owners to rebuild on bomb damaged sites.
(xi) Temporary fencing of cleared sites on which immediate rebuilding
is not practicable.
(xii) Consideration of a scheme to encourage private enterprise to build working class tenements of approved type for renting to approved tenants at controlled rents in exchange for the grant of Crown land on favourable terms.