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Tuesday, June 20, 1972
RELIEF WORK CONTINUES FOR STORM VICTIMS
A full-scale operation by various Government departments is now
underway for the rehabilitation and relief of rainstorm victims.
An inter-departmental working party has been set up to help
family members of rainstorm victims in Kwun Tong, especially in funeral
arrangements.
The working party comprises representatives of the Secretariat
for Home Affairs, the Social Welfare Department, the Medical and Health
Department and the Urban Services Department.
Its office is in the Social Welfare Department's Kwun Tong Community
Centre, at 8, Tsui Ping Road.
The City District Officer (Kwun Tong), Mr. Jack So, said today the
group would begin assisting family members of the victims to identify the
bodies, to look for burial sites and to claim funeral expenses from the
Social Welfare Department.
Staff of the Resettlement Department are working at full speed on
the provision of direct resettlement for 900 people living in the Sau Mau
Ping licensed area, including the 200 survivors of last Sunday's mudslide
there, in the nearby Sau Mau Ping Resettlement Estate.
The department has also decided to rehouse the 500 people who were
evacuated from the licensed area in Sam Kar Tsuen because of possible
landslides there.
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