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Monday, December 3, 1973
NEW SITES FOR CHAI WAN FIRE VICTIMS
Victims of the squatter fire which broke out at Chai Wan early
yesterday (Sunday) morning were helped today by staff of the Squatter Control Office (Hong Kong) to fill in applications for licenced area
sites.
Earlier in the morning, they attended a site identification to
establish their claims. A total of 35 families, comprising 153 people,
turned up at the site.
Altogether 37 illegal structures, all of them not covered by
the 1964 survey, were destroyed in Sunday's fire.
Immediately after the outbreak, staff of the Housing and Social
Welfare Departments rushed to the scene and registration of viotine was completed at about 6 o'clock in the morning.
Six families, comprising 27 people who required temporary
sheltered accommodation, were taken to the Queensway Transit Centre by
transport provided by the Housing Department.
A spokesman for the Housing Department said it was the government's
policy to provide licenced area sites for the genuine fire viotims who
lived in illegal unsurveyed huts.
"In addition, they will be given cash grants from the Emergency
Relief Fund at the new rate, which is not less than $1,330 a family," he
added.
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