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and only two cited news sources outside of the village (district officer or reading notices). Since resettlement the pattern has shown a slight tendency to change, with more formal and less village-oriented communication patterns beginning to appear. Gossip still has the dominant place (20 respondents), but village officials decreased in importance by half (5 respondents) while the same number of respondents report reliance on the more formal government sources. For the first time, two villagers report dependence upon formal communication newspapers and radio,
These are admittedly small differences but they show a constant trend away from the informal communication (and power) pattern of the small village for a small minority of the village population: were it not for the high loading in the sample of illiterate and house-bound housewives who have little opportunity for other sources of communication, the difference would probably be both more dramatic and more impressive. Also, the presence of older males in the resettlement area is substantially lower than it was in the village. Although our figures are still tentative, there seem to be 12 older people (grandfathers and grandmothers of the present school children) from our sample now living in the resettlement area but there are at least four others who formerly lived in the villages that have chosen to move to other villages in the New Territories rather than move in with their families. This is a significant change in the "density" of old people and must be accompanied by a diminution in the authority of the aged, although at this stage, so soon after removal, it would be difficult to analyze with any great specificity.
Employment
Twenty of the thirty-five households reported on in this paper have no employed head of household; the families are living on rental incomes or other sources of income, including household industry and remission of funds from working relatives either overseas or in Kowloon. In detail, 12 families have both rental income and income from the husband being employed either operating his own store or business or as a wage earner. Five families have both rent and household industry providing income, and six families derive income from both rent and the wages of a non-household head employee. These families represent the most prosperous part of the village population, having multiple sources