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Tuesday, October 17, 1972
SHEK KIP MEI REHOUSING SCHEME
Response from tenants involved in the first phase of the Shek
Kip Mei Rehousing Scheme has continued to be favourable.
The Shek Kip Mei Rehousing Operation Unit, which was kept open
during the long weekend, received a total of 395 applications for flats in
Pak Tin Estate over this period.
This brings the running tatal to 1,398 and represents more than
two-thirds of the total number of applications which the Resettlement
Department sent out to householders of domestic flats in Shek Kip Mei
Resettlement Estate.
The Enquiry Centre of the estate has also been well used.
During the past two days the centre dealt with 220 enquiries from
domestic tenants and about 40 from shopkeepers, workshop owners and others.
The Housing Authority is expected to carry out its first interviews
with applicants for flats in Pak Tin within the next two days.
The first tenancy is expected to be offered shortly.
Commenting on a newspaper report that several tenants have raised
some points of doubt and worries about their own situation, a spokesman for
the Resettlement Department said that his department and the Government as a
whole were most willing to help them solve their problems.
"They should state their difficulties in the application form which
will be carefully studied," he said,
"Assistance in one form or another will be given to those in need by
the Social Welfare Department, the Labour Department, the Education Department
as well as other government departments."
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