During the next four weeks the Area Officer has to be ready to deal with all kinds of requests and to help in solving personal and family problems. One of the points on which he has to advise is the type of business-shops, restaurants, workshops etc.-which are allowed in the ground floor rooms in resettlement estates and whether an Urban Council licence is required. If the business is one which cannot be allowed on the ground floor of a resettlement block the squatter may decide to change his trade.
34. By the end of the first week most of the questions have been answered and a great many personal problems have been solved or alleviated. By the second week registration is usually complete and all 'white cards', birth certificates, identity cards and other documents checked to ensure that no additions or substitutions have been made since screening took place. Each household is then required to produce a group photograph of all members of the family; when this is produced the head of household is given his letter of authority to enter a particular resettlement estate. During the third week a nominal roll is prepared showing the composition of each household and this, together with all the group photographs, is forwarded to the estate staff one or two weeks before the move, so that all rooms can be allocated in advance.
35. In the fourth week the move takes place. If the clearance is a large one as many as 1,000 persons may move in one day. Transport is provided both for the squatters themselves and for all their personal belongings. By this time they will have sold their structures to con- tractors for the demolition value of the materials; and within a few days of the move the clearance area will have been freed for permanent development.
36. Meanwhile, the cultivation survey has been completed and schedules of crop values and the area of the cultivation plots have been prepared. Farmers on what was formerly leased agricultural land have a right to crop compensation and disturbance allowance, but since October 1954, ex gratia compensation at the same rates has also been paid to squatter cultivators who were already in operation at that time. Crop compensation is paid at the rate of the market value of the crops on the day of identification. Disturbance allowance is 60¢ per sq. ft. if the cultivator has been working the land since before the Japanese occupation in 1941 and 10¢ a sq. ft. for land that has been opened up between then and October 1954. No compensation at all is payable for land opened up after this date. Disturbance allowance is determined
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