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of the former is that at certain points
food stores, administration huts, including
first aid post and communal kitchen, should
be put up, around which would group huts for
dis-housed persons. Each dispersal area on
the Island relates to a particular portion
of the town of Victoria. The only real
problem in connection with these centres is
whe ther to erect more than is absolutely
necessary, i.e. food store, kitchen, administration
hut, etc., in view of the risk of the whole lot
being blown away by a typhoon. My present
inclination is to have no more than the
framework of the living sheds put up but to
keep the roofing and walling materials in
store nearby.
The other scheme was for dispersal away
from the Island. Naturally we shall want to
get as many of the Chinese population as we
can away from the Island before an attack on
it is launched. Selwyn-Clarke had proposed a
most ambitious scheme which had aimed at getting
300,000 people away and had 'coloured' this with
land settlement proposals which made it look
attractive superficially. Norton was far from
being convinced by the scheme and appointed a
committee under Grasett to go further into it.
That committee's report cut it down a lot but
a dvised the immediate inception of certain
agricultural settlements on the Island of Lan
Tao and on the mainland near Sai Kung in Shelter