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Friday, January 4, 1974
MORE CASH AID TO FIRE VICTIMS
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Nearly $190,000 has so far been paid out to victims of the regent
Kowloon Tsai squatter fire.
Payments from the Emergency Relief Fund amounting to some $130,000
were made to over 800 victims today (Friday) at the Squatter Control Office
of the Housing Department at Li Cheng Uk' Estate. Yesterday (Thursday), a
total of $55,000 was distributed to 550 victims.
Thirty-nine families comprising 139 people who are only eligible
for sites at Cheung Sha Wan Licensed Area were each given a basic grant
of $1,250 for building new huts.
An additional $100 was given to each member of the family for
equiping their home,
Another 1,247 people, who have been offered or who had already
taken up public housing at Lan Tin or Kwai Fong Estate, were each given
$100 re-equipment grant.
The victims of the fire at Ma Tsai Hang Licensed Area last Tuesday
will be given the cash allowance next Thursday (January 10. Payments
will be made to them at the Yan Oi Transit Centre.
Screening for intake into public housing of the 376 victims will
begin next Monday.
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Seven families comprising 27 people who are not eligible to public
housing have been given permission to re-erect their huts on the original
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site.
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