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Tuesday, May 1, 1973

Clearance notices were issued to all occupiers on March 15 this year

asking them to move out by June 12.

Some 50 factory owners will be offered government flatted factory

units at Kwai Chung. About 400 domestic residents will get accommodation

at the Lam Tin Public Housing Estate and 10 shopkeepers will get cash compensation.

Ten factories whose operations cover more than 5,000 square feet are

not eligible for rehabilitation.

Forty-four operators whose structures were built after 1966 are also

not eligible. However, some 100 domestic residents who do not qualify for

rehousing will be offered a licensed area site.

Borderline cases for eligibility

are being investigated by the clearance staff of the Housing Department.

Officers of the Labour Department are available now at the Government

Offices, Kwun Tong to assist the workers employed in the area to find alternative

employment.

The Housing Department will open a temporary office at the Ngau Tau

Kok Resettlement Kaifong Association on the ground floor of Block 8 of the

estate in mid-May, well before the date that the clearance begins. A Labour

Department officer will also be available.

Officers from both the Housing Department and the City District Office

(Kwun Tong) have been visiting individual factories to advise them on removal and

other problems.

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