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Friday, November 17, 1972

DEADLINE FOR SHOP TENANT APPLICATIONS EXTENDED

The 44 shop tenants involved in the first phase of the Shek

Kip Mei rehousing scheme will be given more time to apply for shops or

shop stores at Pak Tin Estate.

The Resettlement Department has decided to extend the date for

applications and a new date will be announced later.

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Originally, the affected shop tenants were to have lodged their

applications by the end of this month.

A spokesman for the department said the decision was made after

individual interviews with the 44 shop tenants by staff of the Rehousing

Unit. The extension was to give the shop keepers more time to think of

their own arrangements and to give his department more time to study a

letter from some of them seeking permission to remain 'in situ' after the

re-development of the Shek Kip Mei estate.

He added that he would look into the reprovisioning scheme again

in the light of the points raised by the shop tenants to see if there were

any way of making the arrangements more convenient to them.

An interim reply to the letter has already been given.

So far, five applications for reprovisioning have been received

from the shop tenants.

Seven out of 11 workshop operators have balloted for and have

been provided with temporary workshop space at Pak Tin Resettlement Estate.

The Shek Kip Mei