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Monday, October 30, 1972

APPLICATIONS FOR SHOPS AT PAK TIN

The first application for an alternative trading space in Pak Tin

Estate has been received from one of the 44 shop tenants affected by the first

phase of the Shek Kip Mei Rehousing Scheme.

A spokesamn for the rehousing operation office at Pak Tin, which

handles such applications, said he expected that more would be forthcoming in

the next few days,

"We have been receiving enquiries from a number of interested shop

tenants about the reprovisioning offer," he said.

The tenants have to vacate their premises in early 1973 to make way

for the conversion work, but ample time has been given to them to make the

necessary arrangements.

Referring to a newspaper report criticising details of the

reprovisioning offer for shop owners, the spokesman refused the suggestion

that the tenants were not getting a fair deal.

"In fact the reprovisioning offer has received the most careful

consideration and thorough deliberation and it has been worked out to meet

the best interests of the shop tenants," he said.

The spokesman pointed out that it was essential to adopt the foot-

for-foot basis in the reprovisioning offer because firstly shops in the Pak

Tin Estate were much larger in area than those at Shek Kip Mei Resettlement

Estate and secondly the number of shops at Pak Tin was much less.

It is