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Thursday, July 6, 1972
LAND RESUMPTION AT SHA TIN
About 55,830 square feet of private agricultural land will be
resumed at Sha Tin for Stage III of the Shing Mun River Flood Control Scheme.
No building land or permanent buildings are involved, but 120
temporary structures comprising 37 workshops, 74 domestic and nine
agricultural structures will have to be moved.
Forty families, or 163 people, are affected by the schemes.
A Government spokesman said they would either be offered resettlement
accommodation or be allowed to re-establish themselves on other similar
land.
"The families who opt to re-establish themselves will be eligible
for ex-gratia compensation," he added. Each family will be able to receive
$1,000 for rehabilitation.
The owners of the workshops will be offered unite in resettlement
factorios provided they comply with a survey to be undertaken by the
Resettlement Department.
The multi-million dollar improvement scheme is to eliminate
the risk of flooding along the banks of the Shing Mun River.
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