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Saturday, May 12, 1973

SPECIAL HOUSING OFFICE FOR NGAU TAU KOK CLEARANCE

The Housing Department will open a temporary office in Ngau Tau

Kok Kaifong Welfare Association building on Monday (May 14) to speed up the

intake of residents from land to be cleared along Kwun Tong Road, into Lam

Tin Public Housing Estate.

Housing Department staff. will also process factory owners from

the area who are eligible for Government flatted factories and advise those

who are not eligible on their removal problems.

Officers of the Labour Department will be there to help workers

find alternative employment.

Clearance of the land is due to start on June 12 to make way for

the construction of the main maintenance depot and administrative buildings

of the Mass Transit Railway.

All 500 people who live in the area will be given accommodation.

Those who do not qualify for public housing will be offered a licensed area

site or transit accommodation.

About 50 factory owners have been offered tenancies in the government

flatted factory at Kwai Chung and 10 shopkeepers will be paid an ex-gratia

cash allowance up to $20,000,

Clearance notices were issued to occupiers on the site in March this

year, but Crown Land permits in the area were cancelled over a long period.

The last cancellation took effect in September last year, and all

undertakings were screened by Housing Department officers.

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