structure and in the Colony; occupations and places of employ- ment; and the average monthly income of the family. If the structure is used for business purposes or as a workshop further particulars will be needed. This information will also be of value later on when it will be passed to the officer in charge of the resettlement estate or area into which the squatter is to be moved.
34. It is at this stage that personal contact is made for the first time between the staff of the Department and the squatter, and the good screener who has been well trained will be able to appreciate the squatter's point of view and understand his needs and his problems. The main difficulty arises when the squatter wishes to add to the screening form the names of relatives or friends who in fact live elsewhere and are not eligible for resettlement-eligibility being
being restricted to the genuine residents of a squatter area at the time of screening. In cases of doubt unannounced night visits will have to be made to find out whether claims to residence are genuine. Only when the Officer in Charge of the Screening Section is fully satisfied that the particulars on the screening form are accurate is a Resettle- ment Department temporary identity card-popularly known as a 'white card'-issued to the head of the household.
35. The screening forms are then passed to the Mobile Resettlement Unit which consists mainly of experienced Area Officers who have formerly been on the administrative staff of resettlement estates or areas and who will be in a position to answer the queries and put at rest the doubts which some squatters may have about life in a resettlement estate and its advantages as compared with life in a squatter area.
36. About a month before the clearance is due to take place the Mobile Resettlement Unit will establish a temporary office in or near the squatter area to be cleared and will then issue clearance and resettlement notices giving the date by which the squatters should register, the dates on which they should move, the date by which their houses must be demolished, particulars of the type of accommodation for which the family is eligible, and the procedure to be followed. For the next four weeks the staff in the Mobile Unit's temporary office will have to be ready to answer all kinds of inquiries, to deal sympathetically with
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