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PURE ONE CODERNMENT DAILY INFORMATION SERVICES

INFORMATION BULLETIN

Thursday, July 13, 1972

TAI PO SQUATTER AREA TO BE CLEARED

A temporary licensed area with huts built by the Government will

be established in Shuen Wan, Tai Po for people whose huts are in a most dangerous

position at the Yuen Chau Tsai squatter area.

Some 470 families comprising about 4,500 people are living in this

squatter area, which has always been exposed to danger during typhoons, as

well as presenting serious fire and health risks.

In the absence of permanent rehousing in the locality at present,

the Government has decided, as an immediate and interim measure, to establish

a licensed area to enable some of these families to move out of this squalid

area into a cleaner and safer place before the onslaught of further typhoons

or fire.

A fire occurred in the area on November 29, 1971, rendering 257 people

of 31 families homeless. Since then they have been temporarily housed in huts

built for them by the New Territories Administration on a site at Shuen Wan.

area,

Mr. H.S. Grewal, District Officer, Tai Po said today that the licensed

an extension of the site where the fire victims have been accommodated,

will cover about 230,000 square feet.

/It will