shops can also be entered from the central corridor. Another departure is the provision of larger and specially designed premises for restaurants. This enables their operators to conform more closely with the require- ments of the licensing authority which is averse to the one and two-bay restaurants that form the bulk of such businesses in the older estates.
57. The new estates are noteworthy not only for these improvements, but also for their size. The largest estate at present managed by the department is Wong Tai Sin with a population of over 86,000. Three of the five estates now under development or construction will greatly exceed this figure. The largest, at Tsz Wan Shan in north central Kowloon, will accommodate around 180,000 persons when it is com- pleted in three years' time. Similarly, two of the three new estates now under construction in the Kwun Tong area of Kowloon will have populations of 153,000 and 117,000 respectively.
58. Information about rents is given in Chapter X and Appendix VII.
59. How are the estates managed? As mentioned in Chapter II, the Resettlement Department manages urban resettlement estates under the authority of the Urban Council. An Assistant Resettlement Officer is in charge of each estate, assisted by a staff of Area Officers. Four Resettlement Officers, the second highest grade of departmental officer, supervise groups of estates and are responsible to an Assistant Com- missioner who is in overall charge of the Estates and Cottage Areas Division. A new manning scale necessitated by the new type of estates was approved during the year, together with a strengthening of the headquarters and supervisory organization.
60. The majority of the field staff are Area Officers in charge of blocks, each officer normally being responsible for two multi-storey blocks with their population of between four and five thousand people living in about 1,000 individual rooms. In all but the smallest estates an Area Officer is designated as second-in-command and assists the officer-in-charge with general administration. Another is responsible for stores, sanitation and the supervision of the labour force which cleans. all blocks, streets and open spaces lying within the estate boundary. There is also another Area Officer in charge of rent collection, which is centralized in each estate.
61. The principal duty of the Area Officers in charge of multi-storey blocks is to ensure that tenants observe the conditions of their tenancies. Area Officers also note any changes in the composition of individual
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