as advance rent before they move into resettlement estate rooms. This is returned to tenants by means of a reduced rent for their estate rooms over a period of 125 months. Since the scheme started in May 1965, the department has collected over $11 million in advance pay- ments, of which $1 million was collected in the year under review. The pace of the scheme slackened in 1968-69, due mainly to a decline in the number of dangerous buildings, a larger supply of cheap private accommodation and the lack of resettlement accommodation in the more popular centrally located estates.
40. In the year under review, the Squatter Control sub-division registered 5,394 people evicted from dangerous buildings, compared with 8,508 in 1967-68. Of these, 832 persons joined the scheme (compared with 3,084 during the previous year); 139 people were offered sites in licensed areas (although they are still eligible to elect for the scheme within a year of the closure of the building in which they had been living, once resited few are likely to join); while 4,423 persons made their own arrangements but reserved their right to join within a year.
41. Since the scheme began, the department has registered a total of 41,610 people from dangerous buildings of whom 18,685 have opted to join and been resettled, 3,803 have been resited and 14,699 have made their own arrangements. The remaining 4,423 are those who had not decided to join the scheme immediately but had retained an option to do so until the end of the year.
LICENSED AREAS
42. Admissions to licensed areas and the administration of these areas is one of the responsibilities of the Squatter Control sub- division. By the end of the year, 21 Class I-II licensed areas had been set aside, with a total capacity of 26,500 people. Class I licensed areas are intended for people with a high priority for resettlement for whom estate rooms are not available at the time. The licence fee is $4 a month for a domestic site. Class II areas, where the monthly fee is $3, are intended for people with no priority for resettlement, such as 'impostors' at clearances, the genuinely homeless, those who have opted out of the rent advance scheme, etc. Licensed areas are pro- vided by Government with such basic facilities as a public water supply, surface drains and latrines. As they are of a temporary nature, huts are very simple but must be built of fire-resistant materials. A
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