APPENDIX TO CHAPTER II
SUMMARY OF CLEARANCE AND RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS
1st April, 1959 to 31st March, 1960
A. Land Clearances
Purposes for which
land is required
Acres Cleared
Number of
Persons
1.
Resettlement Schemes...
83.45
24,849
2.
Other Housing Schemes
3.00
2,523
3. Schools and Welfare Centres
6.06
1,952
4.
Parks and Playgrounds
8.86
385
5.
Factories and Godowns
0.65
314
6.
Public Buildings
++
33.83
IPL
2,842
7. Roads, Drains, Port Works and Water Works
63.39
10,563
8.
Miscellaneous
10.64
418
'Totals
209.88
43,846
B. Squatters resited from Rooftops and Fire-victims
5,568
Grand Totals ...
209.88
49,414
CHAPTER IV
THE MULTI-STOREY ESTATES
47. Most of the families now moved from squatter areas are resettled in a multi-storey estate. On arrival there the head of household presents his letter of authority to the Estate Office. He is then given a tenancy card for the room which he has been allocated, and on acceptance of this card he becomes a tenant of the estate. A group photograph of the whole family is pasted on to the tenancy card which shows, in addition to the room number, the amount of rent payable and the date on which payment must be made each month. On the back is printed in English and Chinese the general conditions to which the tenancy is subject. The head of household then pays his first month's rent at the Revenue Collecting Office where the shroff issues a fixed fee receipt which is pasted on to the tenancy card. The card must always be displayed in the room occupied so that the estate staff may see at a glance both whether rent payments are up-to-date and whether any unauthorized persons are living in the room.
48. For the estate staff intake days and the following two or three weeks are the most important of all; for it is during this initial period that the new tenant must be weaned from many of the deeply ingrained
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