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Tuesday, January 16, 1973
LAST SQUATTER CLEARANCE IN LUNG CHEUNG ROAD
The last squatter clearance connected with the Lung Cheung Road
extension scheme started today at Yuen Ling Village, Diamond Hill.
The 1,880 people involved in the clearance have all moved to their
new homes in Lam Tin or Sau Mau Ping Estate.
Of the 330 huts, about 100 were demolished today. It is expected
that another three days will be required to pull down the rest.
Forty-five shop operators have been allocated units in resettlement
flatted factories in Kwun Tong. Apart from resettlement, the shop operators
and cultivators were given cash compensation, totalling more than $400,000.
A Resettlement Department spokesman today stressed that no one would
be made homeless as a result of the clearance.
Work is well underway on some of the eleven separate projects forming
the $140 million Lung Cheung Road extension scheme.
When the highway is completed in 1975, the entire route across
the northern part of Kowloon will merge with the Kwai Chung Coastal Road.
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
The Governor, after taking into consideration the advice of the
Executive Council, has decided that the death sentence passed on September 21,
1972 on Lai Kuen should be commuted to a term of 15 years imprisonment.
Lai Kuen was found guilty of the murder of Mui Suk-fung.
Release time: 7.00 p.m.