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Tuesday, July 4, 1972
UNSCRUPULOUS HUT SELLING AT TAI HANG TUNG
Officers of the Resettlement Department today uncovered cases of
people selling their huts in the Tai Hang Tung squatter area where 6,000
squatters have been offered public housing as a result of a special survey.
Officers who are interviewing squatters at Tai Hang Tung for eventual
resettlement discovered that many unscrupulous squatters are offering their
illegal structures for sale.
A Resettlement Department spokesman said that these huts would be
demolished as soon as the present occupants moved to resettlement estates or
Government low-cost housing.
He said those who were foolish enough to buy them would not be given
compensation or resettlement after these huts had been demolished.
The spokesman appealed to the public to be on their guard against
such racketeering.
He said the area in Tai Hang Tung had been declared unsuitable for
squatting and it was for this reason that the present aquatters were given
urgent resettlement or low-cost housing.
Resettlement Department officers had been sent to Tai Hang Tung to
warn these squatters against practising such an unscrupulous trade.
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