runs a primary school which by holding separate morning and afternoon sessions has a total of 1,800 places; and a clinic, a handicraft training centre and a welfare centre with a children's library.
105. Although Ngau Tau Kok is particularly well-served, there are many denominational and secular educational and welfare activities in the other areas. At the time of writing this report, the 15 cottage areas had between them 39 schools with primary places for 18,089 pupils, 20 small welfare centres, 12 clinics, 3 boys' and girls' clubs, and 10 Kaifong Welfare Associations.
CHAPTER 7
RESETTLEMENT FACTORIES
106. In the early days of resettlement most areas cleared for re-development contained only domestic huts, shops and cottage industries. There was no special provision for any squatter factory that might be encountered, nor for workshops, though some of the latter were accommodated in ground floor rooms in the domestic resettlement blocks and, with certain limitations, persons engaged in cottage industries were permitted to carry on work in their domestic rooms. But in time clearance areas, especially those previously occupied under permits issued by the Crown Lands and Survey Office of the Public Works Department, began to include larger industrial concerns with heavier machinery. It therefore became necessary to provide resettlement factories in order to facilitate the clearance of undertakings that could not be housed in the ground floor workshops of domestic estates but which clearly required alternative accommo- dation.
107. The first of these factories was built in 1957 and since that date one single-storey and twenty-one multi-storey factory blocks have been built, comprising 7,861 units with about 1.9 million square feet of working space. On 31st March 6,1671⁄2 of these units were occupied by 1,854 individual concerns, an increase of 116 businesses during the year. 1,693 units remained unoccupied at the end of the year, mainly in Yuen Long and Kwai Chung. During the year there was a considerable demand from existing resettlement factory tenants for more space, resulting from good business and the increasing difficulty
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