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Tuesday, September 4, 1973
FAMILIES EVACUATE ESTATE BLOCK AS PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE
The Housing Department is helping 36 families, comprising 135
people, to move out from Block 51 Tsz Wan Shan Estate as a precautionary measure.
The families are living in units of the block facing the hill
slope where a landslide occurred shortly before 6 a.m. this Tuesday) morning.
Four shops on the ground floor of the block have also been
closed but the shop tenants already have alternative units in the
same ostate and so no temporary accomodation is required for them.
Estate office staff and labourers are helping 45 people to
move into Block 28, and 90 people into Block 53 of the same estate.
The Deputy Director of Estate Management, Mr. Ralph Husband,
said that the landslide was posing a threat to the tenants' safety
although it caused no damage to the structure of the block.
"The 12 families living in the lower four floors of the block
will have to move into Block 28 on a permanent basis or at least for
a period of a few months when work on strengthening the end wall of the
column block is carried out," he said.
"Families living on the upper floors will be able to move back
in about a week or two," he added.
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