reason that the Urban Council's policy now is to make available as many ground floor rooms as possible for combined business and domestic purposes even though this reduces the total amount of domestic accommodation. As already mentioned in Chapter IV the relaxation of the Urban Council's normal licensing requirements has enabled settlers to open restaurants, cafes and shops for the sale of fresh meat and fresh fish. At one time ground floor rooms for shops and workshops were allocated only to settlers who had previously been running businesses in squatter areas, but eligibility has now been extended to other categories of squatters or settlers. The fact is accepted that the financial backing for such businesses may come from outside and that the profits may also to some extent go to persons not eligible for resettlement. So long as the settler to. whom the premises are allocated continues to live and work in them the main object, that of assisting settlers to earn a living, is being achieved.
85. Although the work of building and administering resettlement 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 schooling and welfare facilities of all kinds in every part of the Colony.
86. In the cottage areas it has been possible for the Resettlement Department to issue permits at a nominal fee for schools and welfare centres, and many voluntary agencies are doing most valuable work in these areas in buildings which they have constructed on sites made available by the Department. New projects completed during the year under review included the Salvation Army Nursery and Clinic in Tai Wo Hau Resettlement Area, which was opened by Lady Black in December 1958; an additional Nursery and Clinic which is run by the Maryknoll Mission at Ho Man Tin; the Carmel Village Swatow Christian School at King's Park; the Tai Hang Sai Kaifong Association Headquarters; extensions to the Bishop Ford School at Tung Tau; and the Maryknoll School at Ngau Tau Kok.
87. By the end of the year the fourteen cottage areas had schools with places for a total of 12,850 children, four boys' and girls' clubs, twelve welfare centres and ten clinics. There are nine Kaifong Welfare Associations, working under the guidance of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, in Chai Wan, So Kon Po, Mt. Davis, Ho Man Tin, King's Park, Lai Chi Kok, Ngau Tau Kok, Chuk Yuen and Tai Hang Sai.
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