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The first of these consists of about 20 hawkers and stall-
operators in adjoining streets, who will have to move. Any licensed
fixed pitch hawkers will be found new pitches by Urban Services Department,
which in a parallel operation will this year be supervising the removal
of Mong Kok Market from its Argyle Street site to its new location
on a site abutting Shanghai Street.
The second category is the employees in the seven factory
buildings on the site, The Local Employment Service of the Labour
Department will help workers to find new jobs if necessary. A. temporary
office with a team of registration officers from the Local Employment
Service will be set up nearby to assist workers in finding alternative
employment.
The spokesman said that so far the clearance moves had proceeded
smoothly and with the co-operation of those involved. "We are confident
that the industrial and commercial occupiers will show the same co-operation
as the residents have displayed.
"Of the need for this clearance there can be absolutely no
doubt. Both the West Kowloon Corridor project and the Mass Transit
Railway are vital to the economic development of Hong Kong, and are closely
linked with major housing and social developments in Kowloon and the
New Territories," the spokesman said.
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