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Thursday, June 22, 1972

Assistance from the Fund under other heads include $500 burial grants,

and $6,000 grants for families on the death of the chief bread-winner,

Contributions to the Fund from members of the public received today

reached $357,374.80, bringing the total received since the thunderstorm began

to $772,342.80.

Meanwhile, the Agriculture and Fisheries Department, up to 9 a.m. this

morning, has registered a total of 4,920 applications for relief from farmers

who have suffered losses in livestock, crops and poultry.

Of these 4,920, the department has investigated 1,822 applications

and has approved relief cash totalling $218,695 for payment to farmers.

On the resettlement of rainstorm victims, a Resettlement Department

spokesman said today that since Tuesday, more than 1,500 people affected by the

Sau Mau Ping landslide had moved into their homes at the Sau Mau Ping Resettlement

Estate.

The department is working at full speed on resettling the 600 people

in Sam Kar Teuen who had been evacuated from their homes because of possible

landslide there.

The New Territories Administration has paid cut more than $36,000 for

the relief of people in the New Territories whose homes or huts have been damaged

in the rainstorm.

The payment is to enable these people to meet the costs of repairing

their homes.

The New Territories Administration has so far registered some 860

applications for relief of which 158 have been approved, and the rest are under

Of the approved applications, payment has been made in 52 cases.

investigation.

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