and owners therefore tend to spread their businesses outside their premises for storage, food preparation, cooking and the scating of customers. In an endeavour to tighten control over such tendencies, the Resettlement Management Select Committee and the Food & Food Premises Select Committee of the Urban Council have jointly considered proposals for the erection of permanent covered seating accommodation in front of or behind restaurants in Mark I & II blocks.
68. The new estates are noteworthy not only for these improve- ments but also for their size. The largest estate at present managed by the department is Wong Tai Sin with a population of over 87,000. Three of the five estates now under development or construction will greatly exceed this figure. Tsz Wan Shan Estate eventually will house. approximately 170,000 people. Construction of this estate will take from 1962 to 1967. 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.
69. Mark I & II blocks in the older estates were originally dis- tinguished by English alphabetical letters for which there is no Chinese equivalent. In October 1965 they were numbered in English and Chinese numerals, as Mark III & IV blocks have been from their inception. The change at first presented difficulty for postmen, the utility companies and Resettlement Department records but these were quickly overcome and it is certainly simpler for the residents.
70. Information about rents is given in Chapter 10 and Appendix IV.
71. As mentioned in Chapter 2, 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. Six resettlement officers, the second highest grade of departmental officer, supervise groups of estates and are responsible to an Assistant Commissioner who is in overall charge of the Estates and Cottage Areas Division. A new manning scale neces- sitated by the new type of estates was approved during the year, together with a strengthening of the headquarters and supervisory organization.
72. The majority of the field staff are area officers in charge of blocks, cach officer normally being responsible for two Mark I or Mark II blocks with populations of between four and five thousand people living in about 1,000 individual rooms. For Mark III and Mark IV
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