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that about 5 zones totalling 6,500 persons were in the pipeline. at any one time. For each zone the first few days were taken up in issuing clearance notices and information leaflets, putting out information over a loudspeaker system, and answering questions. By the end of the first week most families had re- gistered their requirements. Their identity cards, birth certificates and other documents had also been checked to ensure that no additions or substitutions had been made to the family since screening. After registration each household was asked to have a group photograph taken of all its members in front of a board marked with the household's Resettlement Department number. On handing over his group photograph the head of household received a Letter of Authority to enter a Resettlement Area. At this point all households numbering less than 5 adults, and these formed a majority, were required to choose another family with whom to share a room in Tai Hang Tung or a site in one of the temporary Resettlement Area. The head of house- hold was also required to pick one of four days for his family's move, and to stick to it.
69. The domestic squatters went through this procedure without any particular difficulty, but special attention had to be given to those who depended for their livelihood on cultivation, workshops and shops. Private land was of course resumed and compensation was paid in the normal way, according to law, to the former Crown lessees and, in the case of private agricultural land, to the tenant-farmers. The department does not scruple to cause a squatter inconvenience or expense up to the limit which he can reasonably afford, but it does try to avoid putting a person or a family out of business. Retail shops were the easiest to re-establish and an arrangement was soon arrived at whereby pairs of adjacent ground floor rooms in the multi- storey buildings were converted into shops of 240 square feet, each shop being offered at a rent of $100 a month to a settler who had kept a substantial shop in a squatter area. Few eligible persons refused the offer. Workshops were more difficult: genuine cottage industries, such as rattan piece-work, em-
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