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Tuesday, December 12, 1972
TAI BOM VILLAGE FIRE VICTIMS TO BE RESETTLED
2,800 Registered
About 2,800 people have been registered by the Resettlement Department
for resettlement in Lam Tin Estate following last week's squatter fire in
Tai Hom Village,
The first group of squatters have already gone to the estate to
make final arrangements for moving in.
However, after careful screening, it was discovered that about 150
people were not victims of the fire.
A spokesman for the Resettlement Department said that these 150
people were cutsiders and had never lived in Tai Hom Village.
They hoped that by jumping into the queue they would get into a
resettlement estate.
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The spokesman said that many of these impostors came from as far
Wan.
He said the department's staff would continue to scrutinize all
claims in order that genuine victims would not lose out to these unscrupulous
impostors.
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