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Thursday, October 19, 1972

FIRST GROUP UNDER REHOUSING SCHEME BEING INTERVIEWED

The first group of tenants involved in the Shek Kip Mei Rehousing

Scheme is expected to move into their new homes in Pak Tin Estate on November 1,

this year.

Officers of the Housing Authority today (Thursday) began their first

interviews with individual applicants at the Pak Tin Estate Office.

These families will be offered tenaney at the Estate next Tuesday if

they are found to be meeting the requirements of the Housing Authority.

The Housing Manager of Pak Tin Estate, Mr. Fung Tung, said that the

idea of an interview was to find out the applicants' family circumstances and

their individual needs to ascertain their suitability for tenancy.

he said.

"It has been planned for my staff to conduct some 80 interviews daily,"

"Taking interviews this way with the 1,800 families involved in the

present phase of the Shek Kip Mei Rehousing Scheme can be completed in about

one month and the last family can move into the estate before the end of the year."

One of the first householders interviewed this morning was Mrs. Lau

Wing Fat of Block 26 of Shek Kip Mei Resettlement Estate,

Mrs. Lau, mother of six sons and one daughter, said she was glad that

she could now move into a larger and better flat.

"Although the rent for Pak Tin is higher, it is considered reasonable

and within our means as six of my children are working," Mrs. Lau said.

Mrs. Lau's