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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1974
SHOP OPERATORS APPLY FOR ALLOWANCE
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TEN_KOWLOON BAY SHOP OPERATORS HAVE APPLIED FOR EX-GRATIA ALLOWANCE WITH THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS FOR PROCESSING.
IN FACT, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT SAID, ONE APPLICATION HAD ALREADY BEEN APPROVED AND THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT, MR. NG SHING-TONG OF THE 11TH VILLAGE ON THE KOWLOON BAY RECLAMATION, WAS GRANTED $8,100 LAST FRIDAY (JUNE 21).
PROCESSING OF THE OTHER NINE APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE FINISHED
IN ABOUT A WEEK TO TEN DAYS.
THE SPOKESMAN TODAY (WEDNESDAYƆ URGED OTHER SHOP OPERATORS TO LODGE THEIR CLAIMS WITH THE NECESSARY PROOF AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO THAT THEIR APPLICATIONS COULD BE QUICKLY DEALT WITH.
HE STRESSED THAT THE AREA MUST BE CLEARED TOMORROW (THURSDAY> AS SCHEDULED, OTHERWISE ALL PLANNED PROJECTS WOULD BE HELD UP.
THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INCLUDE THE BUILDING OF THE AIRPORT TUNNEL ROAD LINKING KOWLOON AND KWUN TONG AND A NEW LICENSED AREA FOR THE GENUINELY HOMELESS.
HE CONTINUED: +THE EXISTENCE OR NON-EXISTENCE OF THE STRUCTURES. INVOLVED IS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT ASH REGARD THE FULFILMENT OF THE NECESSARY. CRITERIA ON WHICH THE ELIGIBILITY OF ANY SHOP EX-GRATIA - ALLOWANCE WILL HINGE.+
THE ELIGIBILITY.CRITERIA ARE: SHOP OPERATORS MUST BE ABLE IO PRODUCE EVIDENCE TO PROVE THAT THE RESITE SHOP STRUCTURE OR THEIR PREVIOUS STRUCTURE WAS IN EXISTATICE BEFORE THE 1964 GENERAL SQUATTER SURVEY THEY MUST BE ABLE TO PROVE THAT THEIR BUSINESS WAS CARRIED OUT CONTINUOUSLY SINCE THE 1965 GENERAL SHOP SURVEY- AND FINALLY BUSINESS WAS BEING CARRIED ON AT THE TIME OF THE SCREENING SURVEY CONDUCTED IN 1972.
IN THE 1972 SURVEY, 16 SHOPS WERE FOUND TO BE OPERATING THEN. NINE MORE WERE FOUND TO BE IN BUSINESS IN A SUPPLEMENTARY SURVEY SEVERAL MONTHS LATER.
OCCUP!!
OCCUPIED, BUT NOT BY THE ORIGINAL RESI TEES. THE OCCUPANTS WERE
IN THE FIRST SURVEY, 22 SHOPS WERE FOUND TO BE DOMESTICALLY
OFFERED SPACE IN A LICENSED AREA.
THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT DURING THE EARLIER STAGES OF THE CLEARANCE OF KOLLOON BAY AND AGAIN SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE FIRE IN NOVEMBER 1973 THE ABOVE CRITERIA WERE ADOPTED.
/+MORE THAN
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