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Tuesday, June 20, 1972

RELIEF WORK CONTINUES FOR STORM VICTIMS

A full-scale operation by various Government departments is now

underway for the rehabilitation and relief of rainstorm victims.

An inter-departmental working party has been set up to help

family members of rainstorm victims in Kwun Tong, especially in funeral

arrangements.

The working party comprises representatives of the Secretariat

for Home Affairs, the Social Welfare Department, the Medical and Health

Department and the Urban Services Department.

Its office is in the Social Welfare Department's Kwun Tong Community

Centre, at 8, Tsui Ping Road.

The City District Officer (Kwun Tong), Mr. Jack So, said today the

group would begin assisting family members of the victims to identify the

bodies, to look for burial sites and to claim funeral expenses from the

Social Welfare Department.

Staff of the Resettlement Department are working at full speed on

the provision of direct resettlement for 900 people living in the Sau Mau

Ping licensed area, including the 200 survivors of last Sunday's mudslide

there, in the nearby Sau Mau Ping Resettlement Estate.

The department has also decided to rehouse the 500 people who were

evacuated from the licensed area in Sam Kar Tsuen because of possible

landslides there.

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