38. A total of 356 factories/workshops were cleared and allocated 407 units in resettlement factories. 249 shops were paid a total of $2,113,181.67 in ex-gratia cash allowances in lieu of shop resettlement premises. 128 pigbreeders/poultry farmers were paid a total

total of $218,196.47 ex-gratia allowance. The details are as follows:

(a) Factories/workshops

No. of factories/workshops resettled

...

No. of factories/workshops resettled subject to change

of trade ...

No. of factories/workshops incligible for resettlement No. of eligible factories/workshops refusing

resettlement

188

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134

334

Total number of factories/workshops cleared

356

(b) Shops

No. of shops cligible for ex-gratia cash allowance

249

No. of shops ineligible for resettlement

35

Total number of shops cleared

284

Total amount of ex-gratia shop allowance paid $2,113,181.67

(c) Pigsties/poultry farms

No. of pigsties/poultry farms eligible for ex-gratia

cash allowance

324

No. of pigsties/poultry farms ineligible for ex-gratia

cash allowance...

233

Total number of pigstics/poultry farms

cleared

557

Total amount of ex-gratia allowance paid

$218,196,47

39. Two changes in clearance compensation arrangements were introduced in December, 1971. The first one provided for the payment of ex-gratia cash compensation, upon clearance, to the following 'miscel- laneous undertakings' in squatter arcas:

(i) book-lending;

(ii) distribution centres;

(iii) fortune-telling;

(iv) wholesaling;

(v) bicycle-hiring; (vi) herbalists; and, (vii) repair garages,

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