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Wednesday, February 7, 1973

S.H.A. DEALT WITH ONE MILLION ENQUIRIES LAST YEAR

Nearly 1.4 million enquiries and cases were handled by the

Secretariat for Home Affairs in 1972.

This shows an increase of 15.5 per cent over the 1971 figure.

The enquiries were dealt with by the 19 Public Enquiry Centres,

and the two Tenancy Inquiry Bureaux.

The subjects most frequently touched on were problems related

to housing, rent control and tenancy. Most of the enquiries concerned

the Rating and Valuation (99,391), the Urban Services (79,785), the

Education (79,009) and the Immigration (56,664) Departments, and the

Judiciary (78,793).

The number of miscellaneous Government application forms

distributed through the Public Enquiry Centres totalled 556,797.

Most of these forms were applications for entry to the two

technical institutes and for Government posts and Government housing

estates,

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