Enclosure No.6.
Hon. Colonial Secretary.
The end of the year 1936 and the termination
with it of the legal notice of termination of the extended
5 year leases finds all the owners of land except one
agreed to voluntary evacuation. Altogether there have
been provided 43 house sites (39 at Kak Hang and 4 north
west of the Walled City near the Hau Wong Temple) 6 ready
built houses (at Chuk Yuen) 21 matshed sites (N.W. of
Walled City) 37 pigsty sites (convenient to the Kak Hang
Houses), also 3 street water fountains (at Chuk Yuen,
Hau Wong Temple, and Kak Hang).
The
Of the 65 Walled City houses the land titles.
of whose owners are recognised, 47 have been vacated.
remaining 18 have all, with one exception, accepted either
an instalment of the compensation offered them or, where
a Public Works Department house is being provided, the
amount of their moving expenses. The former are merely
waiting till their houses at Kak Hang and elsewhere are
finished, the latter, receiving Public Works Department
houses, have undertaken to move after Chinese New Year,
and will willingly do so as they are all farmers getting
cultivable land, a Government water supply, and good
houses twice the size of their existing ones.
exception is a man who is not a farmer but a seaman and
whose wife works in a factory, and who therefore does not
want to take a Public Works Department house.
The only
Of the 12 residents in matsheds, all on
temporary permits issued subsequent to the British
occupation, 11 have agreed to take up sites about 1/4 mile
N.W. of the Walled City near the Hau Wong temple, and
have accepted payment of the cost of moving. Although
they are without legal right, the use of force in evicting
them would be as conspicuous and as productive of hardship
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