areas. Its present authorized population of 7,315 consists of 1,306 families, who live in 1,212 individual structures. The principal social and educational work is in the hands of the Maryknoll Mission which 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.
89. 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 35 schools with primary places for 13,871 pupils, 19 small welfare centres, 10 clinics, 4 boys' and girls' clubs and 10 kaifong welfare associations.
CHAPTER 7
RESETTLEMENT FACTORIES
90. In the early days of resettlement most areas cleared for re- development contained only domestic huts, shops and cottage industries. However, in the course of time clearance areas, especially those previously occupied under permits issued by the Public Works De- partment, 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 specialized accommodation.
91. 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 sq. ft. of working space. On 31st March, 6,349 of these units were occupied by 1,915 individual concerns, an increase of 61 businesses during the year. 1,511 units remained unoccupied at the end of the year, mainly in Yuen Long and Kwai Chung.
92. About 85 different types of manufacture are represented in resettlement factories, a microcosm of Hong Kong's light industries. The commonest trades are metalwork, plastics, woodwork, weaving and printing. There are in all 15,000 workers employed in these factories, many of them from the neighbouring domestic resettlement estates. Once established, factories are regularly inspected by officers of the
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