60. A total of 1,090 squatter and authorized temporary factories, workshops and shops were cleared, involving the allocation of 418 units in resettlement factories and 474 shop or workshop premises in domestic estates. Details are as follows:
(a) Factories
No. of factories resettled ...
175
No. of factories to be resettled subject to change of
trade
39
No. of factories ineligible for resettlement
67
No. of eligible factories not accepting resettlement
72
Total number of factories cleared
353
(b) Shops/Workshops
No. of shops/workshops resettled
358
379
737
...
No. of shops/workshops ineligible for resettlement
Total number of shops/workshops cleared...
These figures show an increase of over 100 in the number of shops and workshops cleared, although the number ineligible for resettlement rose by nearly 170 as a result of the policy approved during the year of limiting eligibility to shops recorded in a special survey carried out by the Squatter Control sub-division in late 1965. Another significant change compared with the previous year is the very considerable number of factories refusing resettlement although eligible. The reasons for this have already been given in paragraph 16.
61. Particularly striking clearances during the year were for the re- development of Hillsea Barracks, the site of the new Pak Tin Resettle- ment Estate, a resumption at Ngau Tau Kok Village, an extension to the Lung Cheung Road, the site of the Housing Authority's estate at Ping Shek Village and Staunton Creek, Aberdeen. The Staunton Creek clear- ance, the subject of a press day held at the end of the year, is being carried out in several stages, and when the whole operation is completed in July 1967, about 18.5 acres of land will be released for a new police station, the widening of Wong Chuk Hang Road and for industrial sites. 5,058 persons including 4,352 boat squatters had been cleared and resettled from this clearance by the end of the year, and when the programme is completed some 12,000 people will have been resettled or resited.
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