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香港政府
GIS 新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Sunday, January 14, 1973
LAST SQUATTER CLEARANCE IN LUNG CHEUNG ROAD
To Make Way For Road Improvement Project
The last squatter clearance connected with the Lung Cheung Road
Extension project will take place on Tuesday (January 16) at Yuen Ling
Village, Diamond Hill.
Some 400 families comprising more than 1,880 people are involved
in this clearance. About 330 huts will be demolished in the four-day operation.
The squatters have been given resettlement in Lan Tin or Sau Mau
Ping estates. On top of the resettlement, cultivators. and shop operators
have been given cash compensation totalling more than $400,000.
Forty-five shop operators have also been allocated units in the
Department's flatted factories in Kwun Tong,
of the 400 families, some 376 of them have already moved to their
new homes, and the remaining 24 are expected to follow soon.
There are also 63 unauthorised families staying in the clearance
They have been allocated sites in the Department's licensed area to
build their own huts.
area.
A Resettlement Department spokesman emphasised today (Sunday) that
no one would be made homeless as a result of Tuesday's clearance.
Under
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