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Wednesday, October 31, 1973
NEW DRAFT AGREEMENT SOON FOR ESTATE SHOPS
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The Housing Department is to work out a new draft tenancy agreement
for shopkeepers in its estates.
When tenanoy terms are reached which are acceptable to the Housing
Authority and tenants, they will replace interim arrangements made, at
the request of shopkeepers, since the dispute arose over the introduction
of a long term agreement.
This was the result of a meeting yesterday (Wednesday) between
representatives of Kaifongs, shopkeepers and Housing Department officers.
The draft agreement will form the basis for future negotiations
between the two parties.
Yesterday's meeting follows a promise by the Secretary for Housing
last month that the Housing Authority would take a new look at the long
term agreement originally proposed and subsequently & Przed,
Provisional arrangements agreed at an earlier meeting for
outstanding shop assignment cases still stand. This means that until a
new agreement has been worked out, some tenants may assign their shops by
signing an agreement with the department based largely on the previous
conditions. But, they must undertake to sign the new agreemnt when its terms
have been finalised,
A spokesman for the Housing Department reiterated at yesterday's
meeting that the intention behind the new shop tenancy agreement was
simply to improve the general standard and management of the estates for
the benefit of all living there.
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