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Friday, Tune 23, 1972
SQUATTERS GIVEN ACCOMMODATION
About 60 squatters staying at the open playground of the Kwun Tong
Community Centre will now be moved to the Sau Mau Ping Welfare building where
they will be given proper covered shelter and relief grants.
These squatters were originally living at the Sai Cho Wan squatter
area in Kwun Tong.
During the rainstorm, they were taken to the Kwun Tong Community
Centre where they were temporarily accommodated on the open playground because
the Centre was already fully occupied by survivors of the Sau Mau Ping landslide.
This morning these squatters complained about their open-air accommodation
and staff of the Resettlement Department, after interviewing them, decided that
they be given covered accommodation immediately.
After moving into the Sau Mau Ping Welfare building, these squatters
will be given cash, blankets, cooking utensils and other relief measures.
A Public Works Department engineer will visit their squatter area on
Monday to see whether or not the area is dangerous.
If so,
the Resettlement
Department will offer resettlement to these squatters.
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