trade, he can bid for a resettlement shop by open public tender under the new policy.
35. In October 1969, the rate of disturbance allowance payable to pigbreeders on clearance was revised. An eligible pigbreeder is now paid $7 a square foot for his pigsty up to a maximum of $2,500.
36. At the same time a new policy was also approved under which cash allowances are paid to poultry farmers on clearance.
37. The success of clearances depends on personal contact between the Clearance Officer and the squatter. For this reason, clearance staff is deployed in three offices, Hong Kong Island (headed by an Assistant Resettlement Officer), Kowloon (headed by an Assistant Resettlement Officer), and the New Territories (headed by a Resettlement Officer with his office in Yuen Long). These three officers carry out the actual work of clearance; the other field units are:
(i) the Screening Unit (headed by an Assistant Resettlement Officer)
which carries out the screening described above;
(ii) the Cultivation Unit (headed by an Assistant Resettlement Officer) which surveys cultivation in a clearance area and co- ordinates with the Agriculture and Fisheries Department the assessment and payment of allowances according to current policy; and
(iii) the Factory and Shop Unit (headed by an Assistant Resettlement Officer) which surveys and screens all eligible businesses and arranges their resettlement or payment of ex-gratia allowances. This unit deals with factories, shops, pigbreeders, and poultry farmers involved in a clearance.
38. Quite separate from the field units is the Investigation Section headed by a Resettlement Officer. This section comprises:
(i) the Domestic Investigation Unit (headed by an Assistant Resettle- ment Officer) which checks the eligibility of families who, at first sight, do not appear to be really living in the clearance area. This involves checking alternative addresses and details recorded in documents. Generally speaking, when clearance pro- cedures start the population in a clearance area increases by about 10%; these newcomers, known as 'impostors', move in in the hope of getting resettlement;
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