88. The multi-storey resettlement factory building now under construction in the vicinity of the Li Cheng Uk and Shek Kip Mei estates will also, it is hoped, assist settlers to obtain employment. It will certainly enable squatters now employed in workshops and factories which cannot be resettled in normal domestic buildings to continue in their present employment. If this experiment is a success, as seems almost certain, similar factory buildings will probably be erected in or near all future estates.
89. Although the work of building and administering re- settlement estates and areas is to some extent welfare work it is not the function of the Resettlement Department to provide. welfare centres or to run boys' and girls' clubs, schools, or clinics for all of which there is an urgent need. This must be left to other Government departments or to the voluntary agencies which play such a very large part in providing school- ing and welfare facilities of all kinds in every part of the Colony. In the cottage areas it has been possible for the Re- settlement Department to provide sites on permit for schools and welfare centres and many voluntary agencies are doing most valuable work in these areas in buildings which they have erected themselves on the sites offered. During the year 1956/57 five new projects were completed in the cottage areas. On 25th June, 1956 His Excellency the Governor formally opened the Salvation Army's new Vocational Training and Community Centre at Chuk Yuen and in this same area two other welfare centres were completed. One is known as the Family Life Centre and has been built by the Church of Christ in China. The other is called the Peace Clinic and has been built by the Hong Kong Group of the Christian Mission in Many Lands and specializes in the treatment of tuberculosis cases. In Homantin the Government Maternal and Child Health Welfare Centre was opened in September and soon afterwards work was started on the Lock Tao Maternity Home and Clinic. Extensions to existing schools in Ngau Tau Kok, Chai Wan, Lai Chi Kok and King's Park were completed and now provide an additional 1,402 school places.
90. By the end of the year the fourteen cottage areas had schools with places for a total of 6,512 children, six Children's Centres and Clubs and eight Welfare Centres. Plans were also
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